Before the measles vaccine, there were over 30 million cases of the disease worldwide each year.

The majority of the 124 measles cases reported in Texas this year have been in children between five and 17. The first death in an ongoing measles outbreak has been reported in Texas. The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the death of a school-aged child on Wednesday morning.

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak

The vaccine meeting canceled by the FDA is the second federal vaccine panel meeting Trump administration officials have canceled since RFK Jr. took over HHS.

A March meeting of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory committee told CNN.