Unvaccinated child dies in Texas measles outbreak

A vehicle drives past a sign outside of Seminole Hospital District offering measles testing in Seminole, Texas (Julio Cortez/AP)

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in Texas – the first death in an outbreak that began last month and the first from measles in the US since 2015.

The death was a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” and had been admitted to hospital last week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said on Wednesday in a statement.