Wisconsin health officials reported on Thursday the death of an infant tied to the ongoing measles outbreak in the southwestern part of the state, making it the first fatality of its kind since 1990.
The coroner declared the immediate cause of death as measles.
To protect the privacy of the family and the child, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services will not release any additional information related to the death.
“It is with a heavy heart we are reporting the first death of an infant connected with a measles outbreak in Wisconsin in many years. My heart is broken for the family,” the department’s secretary, Kirsten Johnson, said in a statement. …