00:00In the United States, a child who had not been vaccinated against missiles died from
00:05the disease in rural West Texas, becoming the first death in the country from the highly
00:10contagious respiratory disease since 2015.
00:14The fatal case occurs while the Trump administration's health secretary, Robert Kennedy, represents
00:20radical sceptical stances towards immunizations.
00:24The child had been hospitalized and died Tuesday night amid the largest outbreak of the disease
00:29in Texas in nearly 30 years.
00:31According to health authorities, most of the more than 130 cases reported so far are children,
00:3818 of whom have been hospitalized.
00:41The epicenter of the outbreak is in the Texan county of Gaines, home of an important Mennonite
00:47population, a Christian sect with a history of reluctance to vaccines.
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