A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

LUBBOCK — A school-aged child has died in Lubbock from measles, the first death reported in an ongoing outbreak that has infected more than 120 people in West Texas since January, Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed on Wednesday.

An unvaccinated, school-age Texas child has died from measles in the first U.S. fatality from the disease in a decade as the outbreak sweeps across the rural west of the state. State officials announced Wednesday that it was the first death from the highly infectious yet preventable disease since 2015.