AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Texas Department of State Health Services confirms the second measles death in a Texas resident.
According to the DSHS press release, “The school-aged child who tested positive for measles was hospitalized in Lubbock and passed away on Thursday from what the child’s doctors described as measles pulmonary failure.”
Officials detailed that the child was not vaccinated and had no reported underlying conditions…