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 confirmed measles cases in western Texas grew to 146, and it is possibly spreading to the central part of the ...

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.

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

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

A paramedic administers a dose of the measles vaccine at a health center in Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 27, 2025. The West Texas ...

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

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 ...

Kahn says the measles vaccination has been a victim of its own success. “The vast majority of people have never seen a case ...