School-aged child dies in Texas amid outbreak concentrated among followers of Christian sect.
The United States has reported its first measles death in a decade after an unvaccinated child fell ill amid an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Texas.
The school-aged child died overnight after being hospitalised in Lubbock, northwest Texas, the state’s health department said in a statement on Wednesday.
The death comes amid falling immunisation rates in the US and controversy over the appointment of vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as the country’s top health official.
More than 130 measles cases have been reported in Texas and the neighbouring state of New Mexico this year, almost all of them in people who were not vaccinated.
Health officials have said most of the cases have been concentrated in a…