“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 center in Texas, told AFP.
As the US grapples with its worst measles outbreak in years, President Donald Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has alarmed health experts with his past rhetoric downplaying the importance of vaccines.
He added that his Health and Human Services (HHS) department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were supporting distribution of the shots in Texas.
Questioned by journalists aboard Air Force One, Trump appeared to downplay the outbreak as “so far a fairly small number of people relative to what we’re talking about.”
'Importance of vaccination'
Texas had reported its first measles death, also of a child, in late February -- marking the first US fatality from the disease in nearly a decade.
The vast majority of measles cases tallied by the CDC -- 97 percent -- are patients not vaccinated against the measles, it said on April 3.
The CDC, which defines an “outbreak” as three or more related cases, has recorded six outbreaks so far in 2025. Some 93 percent of the confirmed cases are related to those outbreaks.
“This unfortunate event underscores the importance of vaccination,“ Davis, of UMC Health System in Texas, said in an email regarding the latest death.
“We encourage all individuals to stay current with their vaccinations to protect themselves and the broader community.”
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