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.

The West Texas measles outbreak may be hundreds of miles away from Dallas/Fort Worth, but local experts caution that the anti-vaccine mindset that put that community at risk is already here. "So, I tell my patients,