In Rural Texas, a Measles Outbreak Hasn’t Swayed Vaccine Skeptics
Despite an unvaccinated child’s death, local residents in West Texas say personal choice—not public-health policy—should ...
This young Texas doctor only read about measles. Now she's a leading expert amid outbreak.
Many doctors have never seen measles in person. The Texas outbreak is reshaping how health systems prepare for drops in ...
West Texas measles outbreak nears 200 cases, state health officials report
Three months in, Texas has already reported more measles cases in 2025 than in any other full year since 1992.
As the measles outbreak grows in Texas, what makes the virus so contagious?
Using these little bumps, called fusion proteins, measles enters white blood cells and makes copies of itself. As the white ...
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How a measles outbreak overwhelmed a small West Texas town
The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd ...
Over a dozen new measles cases in Texas outbreak in less than a week: Officials
The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has increased to 159 -- an increase of 13 cases in the past ...
Texas measles outbreak fueled by distrust in public health and personal choice
Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.
Inside the perfect storm of the deadly measles outbreak in Texas
Gaines County is a vast, flat expanse far in the west of Texas: more than 1,500 square miles of sparsely populated farmland.
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With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles
The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between ...
Texas measles cases rise to 146 in an outbreak that led to a child’s death
Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in rural West Texas outbreak that led this ...
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West Texas measles cases rise to 198. Here is what you need to know.
The number of measles cases in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, has grown to 137, 30 more than the cases ...
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West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates
SEMINOLE — Measles had struck this West Texas town, sickening dozens of children, but at the Community Church of Seminole, more than 350 worshippers gathered for a Sunday service. Sitting elbow ...