In the United States, a child who had not been vaccinated against measles died from the disease in rural west Texas, becoming the first death in the country from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015.
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00:00In the United States, a child who had not been vaccinated against missiles died from
00:05the disease in rural West Texas, becoming the first death in the country from the highly
00:10contagious respiratory disease since 2015.
00:14The fatal case occurs while the Trump administration's health secretary, Robert Kennedy, represents
00:20radical sceptical stances towards immunizations.
00:24The child had been hospitalized and died Tuesday night amid the largest outbreak of the disease
00:29in Texas in nearly 30 years.
00:31According to health authorities, most of the more than 130 cases reported so far are children,
00:3818 of whom have been hospitalized.
00:41The epicenter of the outbreak is in the Texan county of Gaines, home of an important Mennonite
00:47population, a Christian sect with a history of reluctance to vaccines.