The United States has registered its first death from measles since 2015, after a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in an outbreak in rural West Texas. Normally, most US cases are brought into the country by people who have travelled overseas.

Texas officials on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states.