Two top Louisiana officials who are physicians are encouraging residents to get vaccinated against measles as an outbreak spreads in Texas.

Community leaders in the Capitol area said they are closely monitoring the recent measles outbreak in Texas. According to health officials, an unvaccinated child in Lubbock was the first measles death in the United States.

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have dropped since the covid pandemic began.