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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 146 in just one month. A child is ...

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 ...