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 ...

The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between ...

Measles is an airborne viral disease that can cause serious complications, including a rash with visible flat, red spots on a person’s body. It is mostly preventable by vaccine. Two doses of the ...

The deadly outbreak comes 25 years after health officials declared measles to be eliminated in the United States following an ...

Public health authorities reported on Feb. 21 that an ongoing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas and Lea ... The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that states can require vaccinations ...

Gaines County, which has been hit hard by a measles ... All 50 states and the District of Columbia require vaccines for students to attend school, according to the National Conference of State ...

The Texas Department of Health confirmed the latest tally since the outbreak, centered in Gaines County, began in late ... San Antonio Metropolitan Health District Deputy Director of Communicable ...

Texas officials announced the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade Wednesday, a grim milestone in the ongoing outbreak ravaging Texas and nearby New Mexico. The death, which occurred in a ...