According to the society, the last US measles death was in 2015. A measles infection can have particularly devastating complications for pregnant women and young children, including pneumonia, neurological impairment, hearing loss and death.

A patient who was hospitalized with measles in Texas has died, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. It marks the first death in the state's latest outbreak — the largest such outbreak in close to 30 years — which has left more than 120 people infected.

A child in Texas has died from measles, officials said Wednesday, the first known death in the current large outbreak in West Texas and the first death from measles in the country since 2015. The individual, described as a school-aged child, was not vaccinated. The gender and previous health status of the child was not disclosed.