After a pediatric patient in West Texas died of measles complications, hospital officials are urging the community to take the outbreak seriously, and to educate themselves about the virus and vaccination.

Here’s what to know about the outbreak after the first U.S. death since 2015 from the highly contagious—but preventable—respiratory disease.

Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has confirmed the first death in the state from measles occurred at its facilities. Here is what we know.