Texas officials on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease. A Gaines County resident died in Lubbock, Zach Holbrooks, public health director and executive director of the South Plains Public Health District,

An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.

A child who was hospitalized with measles has died from the illness in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that has infected more than 120 people​.

A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States.

A West Texas person who was hospitalized with measles has died, marking the first death from the illness in an outbreak that began last month in the South Plains region. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday,