The second child with measles died in Texas, although the exact cause of death is unknown at this time, according to the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.
A spokesman for NBC News said that World Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior plans to attend the child's funeral on Sunday.
Children's husband and an adult in New Mexico also think he is Died It is the first reported death in the country for a decade.
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A second child died with measles in Texas. (Jan SonnenMair/Getty Images)
Since January, 481 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas aloneAccording to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Texas.
This total includes six children and a child at a day's care center in Lubok who have experienced positively over the past two weeks, according to NBC News. Two of these children among 56 people who were taken to the hospital with measles in the area since the disease began to spread in January.
The parents of a girl who died after measles infection said they would not get a mmr vaccine
Since January, 481 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas alone. (Reuters/Annie Rice)
About three to three of every 1000 children with measles die from respiratory and nervous complications, according to data from the centers of control and prevention of diseases. About one in 20 children suffer from measles He suffers from pneumoniaIt is the most common cause of measles death in young children.
The measles began in Texas in late January, but it has since spread to a few other states.
Century Minister Robert F. plans. Kennedy Junior to attend the funeral of the child on Sunday. (Photo by Jason Mendes/Getty Emayiz)
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In the United States, 628 measles were reported in at least 21 states and Washington, DC, so far this year, according to NBC News.
