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 ...

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

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

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

An adult in Rockwall County has also been infected, but is not considered part of the West Texas outbreak. Of the 58 cases of measles recorded in Texas since January, 45 were reported in Gaines ...

Feb. 28, the number of measles cases in West Texas has risen to 146, with 20 hospitalizations, in an outbreak primarily ...

Texas health officials have confirmed 24 total cases of measles in Gaines County and a new case in Terry County on Tuesday.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has reported three new measles cases in Gaines County on Tuesday.

A news release said the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reports (as of Feb 12): — 24 cases of measles confirmed in Gaines County/All cases are among unvaccinated individuals — Age ...