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More than half of Texas' counties have MMR vaccination rates among kindergartners below the threshold the Centers for Disease ...
The county health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.
More than a month has passed since the last reported measles case in Texas, but with school starting, local officials still warn of the need to vaccinate for preventable illness.
Directions to a measles vaccination site are seen outside of the Lubbock Public Health facility on April 9, 2025, in Lubbock, Tex. On Monday Texas health officials said the state’s massive measles ...
Texas, specifically Gaines County, served as the epicenter of ongoing measles outbreaks across the U.S. The state has ...
The child recovered from the initial infection, but years later developed a rare progressive brain disorder known as subacute ...
The measles outbreak centered in West Texas – one of the largest and deadliest in centuries – has ended, state health officials announced on Monday.No new cases have been reported in the counties that ...
Editorial written by The Dallas Morning News Board. The West Texas measles outbreak has, thankfully, ended. Between late January and earlier this month, more than 760 Texans caught the preventable ...
More people in the Metroplex may have been exposed to measles in recent days, as the total number of infections in the Texas outbreak rose to nearly 600 as of Friday, April 18. Collin County health ...
Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...