Trump's Health Secretary claimed measles outbreaks are normal after Texas reported the first death from the disease since 2015

Texas authorities on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015,

We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.

A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states.

A child who wasn't vaccinated has died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015.

An unvaccinated child has become the first death in a measles outbreak taking hold in west Texas – but Health and Human Services Services Robert Kennedy Jr. downplayed the case, saying measles cases were “not unusual.