With growing cases of measles in Texas and Lubbock reporting the states first death, local health officials hosted a news ...

The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child.

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month ...

The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.

Texas DSHS in a statement: "The best way to prevent getting sick is to be immunized with two doses of a vaccine against measles, which is primarily administered as the combination ...

City of Lubbock health officials urge caution, vaccine amid Texas growing measles outbreak City confirms ... people who get sick will need hospital care and one in 20 will develop pneumonia," DSHS ...

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child.The child was unvaccinated and ...

In a press briefing hosted by the city of Lubbock, Texas, on Friday ... potentially get pneumonia or encephalitis and or pass away from this," Cook said. "So that's a foolish idea to go have ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — A child has died of measles here ... While many children recover from measles, some die of pneumonia caused by the virus or a secondary bacterial infection.

Dig Deeper:Covenant Health Hospital in Lubbock confirms Texas' first measles death in ... antibiotics if the individual develops pneumonia and medications to reduce fever. However, Cook said ...

A team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Texas this week to aid in the response to a growing ...