After Mennonites in Gaines County were singled out in discourse about the spread of measles in Texas, local pastor Jake Fehr ...

While it’s not immediately clear which Mennonite community has been affected, the Gaines County area includes a community ...

The measles outbreak in West Texas is significantly impacting the region's Mennonite community. Here's what we know about ...

Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles ...

An outbreak of measles in West Texas that has led to more than 100 cases and one death has largely been linked to a local Mennonite community.

In Texas, the virus has concentrated on the Mennonite community in Gaines County. One of the county’s local public school district with only 143 students, according to 2023-24 school year data ...

A measles outbreak primarily affecting the state of Texas has grown to nearly 100 cases, according to state health officials.

Gaines County, which counts about 22,000 ... close-knit local Mennonite community, according to Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson Lara Anton. In 2010, about one-fifth of ...

A measles epidemic in West Texas is unlikely to ... they are close-knit. Gaines County, population a little over 20,000, is home to a number of Mennonite congregations, as well as a Mennonite ...

Texas health officials believe the ongoing outbreak began in a Mennonite community in Gaines County. The county seat, Seminole, sits near the New Mexico border, about 350 miles west of Dallas and ...