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 ...

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in a rural West Texas outbreak that led ...

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.

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 ...

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

Texas is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades, as cases have jumped from two to 146 in just one month. A child is ...

Feb. 28, the number of measles cases in West Texas has risen to 146, with 20 hospitalizations, in an outbreak primarily ...