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 ...

Eighteen more cases of measles were reported in Gaines County, as of Friday. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.

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

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

The Houston Health Department is investigating two possible cases of measles in the city, officials confirmed on Friday. A ...

Texas health officials have confirmed 24 total cases of measles in Gaines County and a new case in Terry County on Tuesday.

A news release said the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reports (as of Feb 12): — 24 cases of measles confirmed in Gaines County/All cases are among unvaccinated individuals — Age ...

There is a measles outbreak in the South Plains region of Texas, with 58 confirmed cases, primarily in Gaines County, which ...

(Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) The first reported cases of measles in the Gaines County outbreak were in two children, who were hospitalized with the ...