A major measles outbreak in West Texas — which on Tuesday resulted in the death of an unvaccinated child, the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade — highlights the troubling rise in measles in the U.

A child has died of measles in Texas, officials said — the first death from the highly contagious disease the United States has seen in a decade. The school-age child was not vaccinated, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.