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

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

While it’s not immediately clear which Mennonite community has been affected, the Gaines County area includes a community ...

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles ...

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles ...

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

Yahoo News answers some of the most frequently asked questions about measles amid the Texas and New Mexico outbreaks.

The measles outbreak — the largest in the state in 30 years — has spread from two cases in late January and now includes nine counties, most of them in the rural South Plains ...