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 ...

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

A child’s death this past week in Texas is the first U.S. death from measles, a highly contagious but preventable respiratory ...

The number of people with measles in Texas rises to 146 in an outbreak that led to the death of an unvaccinated child.

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 ...

An outbreak of measles in northwest Texas grew to 146 cases on Friday, two days after health officials reported that a child ...

Gaines County schools have among the lowest vaccination rates in Texas. The measles outbreak there is a portent for the rest ...

Lea County, New Mexico, is now reporting an outbreak of measles, according to the New Mexico Department of Health.

The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 146, according to new data released Friday. At least 20 people have been hospitalized so far, according to the ...

The outbreak began less than a month ago when several unvaccinated children in Gaines County, Texas, were identified as having measles. At this time, it's unclear how the first person was exposed ...