India, April 7 -- The measles outbreak in the United States continues to swell and get worse as a second unvaccinated school-aged child in West Texas died from the illness related to the disease.

According to a report by the Associated Press, the child was "receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized" and did not have underlying health conditions. Aaron Davis, a spokesperson for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, quoted in the AP report, declined to say which day the child died.

The US has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024.

The latest death did not feature in either the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Texas State Department of State Health Services re...