The warning against measles parties comes days after an unvaccinated child died of measles in Lubbock County about month after an outbreak began in West Texas.

Kennedy wrote in an opinion piece published Sunday on Fox News Digital that parents should consult with physicians about the MMR vaccine.

When the local hospital warned of a brewing measles outbreak, Kaleigh Brantner urged fellow residents of this rural West Texas community to beware of vaccinating their children. Two weeks later, her unvaccinated 7-year-old son came home from school with a fever.

While a measles case has yet to be confirmed in San Antonio and Bexar County, hundreds of thousands of residents may have been exposed to the virus spreading rapidly throughout the state.

The measles case was not only the first in the region this year, but in all of Pennsylvania, amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus. So far this year, 164 measles ca

The Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Public Health is investigating a confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated Montgomery County child.