A measles outbreak spanning multiple states is nearing 600 cases, and experts say it might just be the beginning.

The Texas Department of State Health Services said Tuesday that the number of measles cases in the outbreak that began in January has risen to 505 confirmed infections with 57 hospitalizations. Based on the most recent data,

Three people have died from measles-related illnesses in the U.S. since the highly contagious virus started ripping through West Texas in January.

Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral of an 8-year-old girl who died of lung failure caused by measles. She was unvaccinated and had

A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday, in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and has spread across 22 states. The unvaccinated school-aged child,

The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.

A second child in Texas has died from measles, one of the world’s most contagious illnesses, which was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, several decades after the introduction of a highly effective vaccine.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Gaines County, Texas, to console the families whose young children have died.

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. visited West Texas after the measles -related death of a second school-aged child to “console the families” and “to support Texas health officials” in efforts to control an outbreak that has reached nearly 500 cases with two pediatric deaths.