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 ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County has more than doubled in a week. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.

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 ...

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

The outbreak began less than a month ago when several unvaccinated children in Gaines County, Texas, were identified as having measles. At this time, it's unclear how the first person was exposed ...

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

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

according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Most of the cases are centered in Gaines County, which is reporting 45 cases. Other surrounding areas are seeing spread of the illness ...