A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is reporting an outbreak of measles in Gaines County.All cases hav ...

Having weighed the evidence and concluded vaccines are safe, the scientific community moved on. The community of mothers did ...

Gaines County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state of Texas and has among the highest rates of children with ...

Measles cases are growing in West Texas and health officials are sounding the alarm about the outbreak that we are seeing and ...

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age ...

A surge in respiratory and mosquito-borne illnesses drove an increase in health risks in 2024. COVID infections climbed, fueled by new variants like KP.3 and LB.1, though hospitalizations remained low ...

With hospitalizations and at least a dozen cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low ...

In 2018, improperly prepared vaccines — after nurses mixed doses with muscle relaxants instead of water — led to the deaths ...

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create religious ...

Last year, 16 measles outbreaks were reported, compared with four outbreaks reported in 2023, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “In the United States ...

Measles begins with fever, cough, runny nose and sore eyes followed by a blotchy rash which begins on the head then spreads down the body. The measles virus. Picture: BSIP/Universal Images Group ...