An 8-year-old girl in Texas died Thursday morning of \u201cmeasles pulmonary failure,\u201d according to The New York Times, citing records it obtained. <\/p>\n
A Trump administration official told the paper the girl\u2019s cause of death is \u201cstill being looked at.\u201d <\/p>\n
This is the second death in the state linked to the ongoing measles outbreak. The first death was in an unvaccinated school-age child in February. A death in New Mexico remains under investigation. <\/p>\n
The outbreak \u2013 now spanning Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and possibly Kansas \u2013 reached at least 569 cases Friday, according to data obtained from state health departments. <\/p>\n
Texas has reported 481 outbreak-associated cases; New Mexico has 54 cases, and Oklahoma reported 10 cases \u2013 eight confirmed and two probable \u2013 as of Friday. <\/p>\n
Cases in Kansas, which the state health department said may be linked to the outbreak, reached 24 as of Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Experts said these numbers are most likely a severe undercount because many cases go unreported. <\/p>\n
Most of the reported cases are in people under 18, and experts worry about increasing hospitalizations, especially in younger children who are at higher risk of complications. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe more children who get the disease means that there\u2019s an increased chance that there will be more children getting sicker with complications from measles,\u201d said Dr. Christina Johns, a pediatric emergency physician at PM Pediatrics in Annapolis, Maryland. <\/p>\n
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has downplayed the severity of the outbreak and faced criticism of the agency\u2019s response. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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