Woman in fatal measles case vaccinated as child

SEATTLE — A local health official says a woman who died of measles in Washington state had been vaccinated against the disease as a child but succumbed because she had a compromised immune system.

The woman’s death in the spring was the first from measles in the U.S. in 12 years. Washington Health Department said the woman lacked some of the measles’ common symptoms, such as a rash, so the infection wasn’t discovered until an autopsy.