A child’s death this past week in Texas is the first U.S. death from measles, a highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease

The measles outbreak in Texas has quickly grown to 146 cases. One child has died. NBC News answers readers' questions about the disease, vaccines and government response.

The West Texas measles outbreak may be hundreds of miles away from Dallas/Fort Worth, but local experts caution that the anti-vaccine mindset that put that community at risk is already here. "So, I tell my patients,