When Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy answered questions during the first cabinet meeting of the new Trump administration, he incorrectly described the number of people who died in a West Texas measles outbreak and the reason people were hospitalized.

West Michigan doctors are encouraging parents to have their children vaccinated after an unvaccinated child died of measles in West Texas. It's the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. (Feb. 27,

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