The People’s Voice cited South Plains Public Health District vaccination clinics held Feb. 6 and 7 in Gaines County. On Feb. 5, the Texas state health department confirmed Gaines had six cases of ...

For a community to be protected against contagious diseases, enough residents need to be vaccinated to provide “herd immunity ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County has more than doubled in a week. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.

The West Texas measles outbreak continues to grow, now possibly spreading into the central part of the state and neighboring ...

Texas Department of Health Services on Friday upped its measles count to 146 cases with 20 people hospitalized. A school-age child died from the highly contagious virus this week. That child was not ...

Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in a rural West Texas outbreak that led ...

Kahn says the measles vaccination has been a victim of its own success. “The vast majority of people have never seen a case ...

“We have measles outbreaks every year,” he added. Mr. Kennedy has also said in the past that immunizations against measles ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an ...

The outbreak is concentrated in a "close-knit, undervaccinated", Texas health department spokesperson Lara Anton said. The ...