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 ...

For a community to be protected against contagious diseases, enough residents need to be vaccinated to provide “herd immunity ...

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...

The number of confirmed measles cases in western Texas grew to 146, and it is possibly spreading to the central part of the ...

A paramedic administers a dose of the measles vaccine at a health center in Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 27, 2025. The West Texas ...

On the Texas A&M campus right outside Rudder Tower stands a symbol of progress: a statue of Matthew Gaines. Born into slavery ...

More cases of measles have been detected in Texas' South Plains region, according to an update from rhe Department of State Health Services on Friday. 146 cases of measles connected to that outbreak ...

Lea County, New Mexico, is now reporting an outbreak of measles, according to the New Mexico Department of Health.

The number of measles cases in Gaines County has more than doubled in a week. Separate from the West Texas outbreak, Austin’s first measles case in 24 years reported Friday. Of the 58 cases of ...

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 ...