CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words-- including "health equity," "race," "bias," and "disparity" -- in their annual performance evaluations;

An unvaccinated, school-aged child in West Texas has died from measles, marking the first fatality in an outbreak that began in late January and has infected at least 124 people so far, about 80% of them children.

The US has reported its first measles-related death since 2015, with a child in West Texas confirmed as the victim. Read on to know why experts are warning about a massive spread of this disease in the upcoming days.