SEMINOLE, Texas — The building where hundreds of families are lining up for measles care amid a fast-growing outbreak in West Texas looks more like an abandoned car dealership than a doctor’s ...
SEMINOLE, Texas—The dusty plains of Gaines County stretch endlessly, peanut fields fading into cotton farms and oil fields, punctuated by signs touting God. This sprawling rural region is ...
The worsening measles outbreak, which has largely spread through a Mennonite community in Gaines County, has infected ... Public Health District in Seminole, Texas.Credit...Desiree Rios for ...
Some have been able to be treated in Gaines County, while at least three have been sent to Lubbock for a higher level of care, Albert Plinkington, CEO of the Seminole Hospital District told Texas ...
On the ground in Gaines County, Texas, epicenter of the outbreak ... a family medicine doctor in Seminole, Texas, who has been caring for patients with measles for several weeks.
Vaccination rates have dipped in many states, including Texas, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In Gaines County, where Seminole is located, the measles-vaccination rate among ...
Most Texas cases, 156 in total, have been in Gaines county, where Seminole is located. The vaccination rate in the area is 82 percent, well below the 95 percent needed to maintain herd immunity.
Statement: A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, was caused by “a public health initiative” to “distribute free measles vaccines.” More than 140 people in Texas have contracted ...
(Liz Rymarev / Staff Photographer) Texas' measles outbreak has grown to 223 cases, the state reported Tuesday morning. The outbreak began in Gaines County, near the New Mexico border. The reported ...
On Tuesday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 223 cases across the state since the virus was first reported in Gaines County. As of March 11, local and state officials have ...
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