Eighteen more cases of measles were reported in Gaines County, as of Friday. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.
The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.
New measles cases have been reported since the first death in West Texas amid the ongoing outbreak. Cases have also been ...
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One hundred forty-six measles cases have been reported in the outbreak in West Texas, the Texas Department of Health Services said in an update today. This is 22 more confirmed cases since an update ...
Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.
Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...
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There has been a rise in MMR religious exemptions in North Carolina since 2020, which is higher than the number of medical exemptions for school students not getting vaccinations of all types.
With a measles outbreak in West Texas, parents are revisiting their children's vaccine records as doctors stress the ...
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low ...