US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, voiced support on Sunday for the measles jab, as an outbreak of the disease spreads in the country's southwest. An unvaccinated child died in late February in the state of Texas in the first US fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the measles outbreak in west Texas is a “call to action,” as he encouraged parents to consider whether

At least 155 people in West Texas and New Mexico have contracted the disease, and one child has died.