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

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 ...

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.

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

DALLAS (AP) — The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of ...

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

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 ...

After Mennonites in Gaines County were singled out in discourse about the spread of measles in Texas, local pastor Jake Fehr ...

As an outbreak of measles continues to spread in west Texas and New Mexico, many people are wondering, how bad could it get?

Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are ...

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