Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say

“Every single outbreak, illness, hospitalization and death is a tragedy, because it is entirely preventable with those vaccines,” said David Higgins, a pediatrician and preventive medicine expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “Right now, what we need to be doing as a nation is rebuilding and building confidence in one of the greatest public health tools ever created,” he said.