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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is touting the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine as the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles after a visit to Texas and a meeting with the family of an 8-year-old girl who died from the disease
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Two children in Texas have now died from the preventable disease. According to the New York Times, the hospital in Lubbock, where the second child died, confirmed the child was not vaccinated
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The first child to die from the outbreak was in late February
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At the time, Kennedy, who has a history of vaccine skepticism, appeared to downplay concerns about the significance of the outbreak
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The measles outbreak has spread quickly since January in the South Plains and Panhandle regions of Texas
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with close to 500 people infected, many of them school-age children
