The first person known to have died from measles in the U.S. in a decade was announced by health officials on Wednesday and described as a "school-aged child" who perished in a children's hospital in West Texas,

An outbreak rural West Texas has grown to 124 cases across nine counties, with nine cases in eastern New Mexico

A child died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.