US health and human services department confirmed death but insisted the exact cause is under investigation<\/p>\n
A second child with measles has reportedly died in Texas<\/a> amid a steadily growing outbreak that has infected nearly 500 people in that state alone.<\/p>\n The US health and human services department confirmed the death to NBC<\/a> late Saturday, though the agency insisted exactly why the child died remained under investigation. On Sunday, the New York Times reported<\/a> that the eight-year-old girl had died from \u201cmeasles pulmonary failure\u201d early Thursday at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, citing records obtained by the outlet.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US health and human services department confirmed death but insisted the exact cause is under investigation A second child with measles has reportedly died in Texas amid a steadily growing outbreak that has infected nearly 500 people in that state alone. The US health and human services department confirmed the death to NBC late Saturday, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}