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Public health officials confirmed more than 650 cases in January alone, and the outbreak quickly eclipsed the 2025 outbreak in West Texas that sickened at least 762 people and killed two school-age children.—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026 The disease is primarily spreading through school-age children and popping up in some of the most common communal gathering places for families.—Penelope Gatlin, STAT, 20 Apr. 2026 Three measles deaths were reported nationally last year — two among unvaccinated school-age children in Texas and one in an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico.—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 Haitian police on Monday arrested the mayor of a small rural town where 25 people, including school-age children, died over the weekend in a deadly stampede inside the historic Citadelle fortress.—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for school-age