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 West Texas measles outbreak continues to grow, now possibly spreading into the central part of the state and neighboring New Mexico, health officials said Friday.

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.

The child who died in the outbreak is the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

After Mennonites in Gaines County were singled out in discourse about the spread of measles in Texas, local pastor Jake Fehr ...

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 ...

Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are ...

Kahn says the measles vaccination has been a victim of its own success. “The vast majority of people have never seen a case ...