LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa Whitfield confirmed the death Wednesday. It wasn’t clear the age of the patient, who died overnight.

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death due to the outbreak.

A child who tested positive for measles died in West Texas, the state health department said, marking the first death in an outbreak that has sickened nearly 140 people. The Texas Department of State Health Services said a school-age child died after being hospitalized in Lubbock.

In all the pandemonium, the fan ran toward the sideline and did a leaping celebratory hip-bump with none other than Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and Texas Tech alum, Patrick Mahomes. A Texas Tech fan won the fan putt and hit a celly with Patrick Mahomes 😂🔥 pic.twitter.com/bDuETUcz5y

During a TV timeout in the first half of Monday’s clash between No. 10 Texas Tech and the visiting fourth-ranked Houston Cougars in Lubbock, Texas, a fan sank the full-court put