Second US child dies of measles, almost 650 ill in southern states, officials say
Texas reported its first measles death, also of a child, in February – marking the first US fatality from the disease in nearly a decade

“We are deeply saddened to report that a school-aged child who was recently diagnosed with measles has passed away,” Aaron Davis, vice-president of UMC Health System, a medical centre in Texas, told Agence France-Presse.
The child had been receiving treatment for “complications of measles” in hospital, he said, adding they were “not vaccinated against measles and had no known underlying health conditions”.
Kennedy, however, posted on social media on Sunday that “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine”.
He added that his Health and Human Services department and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were supporting distribution of the vaccines in Texas.