Gaines County, where Seminole sits ... Edwards was conventionally trained at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and initially opened a small town clinic where he practiced family ...

Andrews is about halfway between Seminole in Gaines County ... complicated by the fact that Texas has a mostly decentralized system of public health. Cities and counties can stand up their ...

He hadn’t been expecting a stranger with a notepad, but he listened as I explained that I had come to town to write about the ...

Many doctors have never seen measles in person. The Texas outbreak is reshaping how health systems prepare for drops in ...

Last week, Texas officials reported that an ... The tight-knit Mennonite community in Gaines County, mostly centered around the town of Seminole, have been hardest hit. Members of this Anabaptist ...

Despite an unvaccinated child’s death, local residents in West Texas say personal choice—not public-health policy—should ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, has grown to 137. That includes 30 more cases reported since three days ago. Devonay Pena comforts her 13-month-old ...

Vaccination rates have dipped in many states, including Texas, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In Gaines County ... ways outside of town. After circling county roads for a while ...

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 ...

As of March 11, cases reported in Texas rose to 223 from 198 on March 7 and hospitalizations rose to 29 from 23. In Gaines County, the center of the outbreak, infections increased to 156 from 137 ...

In Gaines County, Texas, which has the majority of cases, the kindergarten measles vaccination rate is 82 percent — far below the 95 percent needed to prevent outbreaks. Many of the measles ...

Caldwell was ranked ninth out of the top 10 counties world's largest Buc-ee's ...