Despite an unvaccinated child’s death, local residents in West Texas say personal choice—not public-health policy—should ...

Many doctors have never seen measles in person. The Texas outbreak is reshaping how health systems prepare for drops in ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now stands at over 200 cases, according to the latest figures released by local ...

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The measles outbreak in West Texas has soared to 198 cases, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported Friday.

RFK Jr. has cited vitamin A and cod liver oil as effective methods of measles prevention while stopping short of outright ...

Using these little bumps, called fusion proteins, measles enters white blood cells and makes copies of itself. As the white ...

The kindergarten vaccination rate against the measles in Gaines County is 82%, far below the 95% needed to achieve herd ...

There's an unusual health scare in far west Texas right now. The disease that's spreading, the measles, was thought to have been a thing of the past. The CDC declared it eliminated from the United ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week he would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella ...

Gaines County is a vast, flat expanse far in the west of Texas: more than 1,500 square miles of sparsely populated farmland.

The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has increased to 159 -- an increase of 13 cases in the past ...