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. The child was unvaccinated and had ...

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles ... Some patients’ respiratory issues progressed to ...

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

The child was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock, Texas, said Lauren Adams ... respiratory support to help them get over viral pneumonia linked to the measles,” Johnson told ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — A person who was hospitalized with ... but infection can lead to dangerous complications like pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and death. The outbreak is largely spreading ...

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

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

Texas measles cases hit 159 cases in nine counties as Gaines County cases surpass 100 Lubbock Public Health ... care and one in 20 will develop pneumonia," DSHS stated in a press release.

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 ...