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A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak ... mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
As of July 1, 753 cases of measles have been confirmed in Texas, with 53 cases in Lubbock County and 414 cases in Gaines ...
Editor's note: From January 2025 through June 2025, The Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health ...
Over 130 people in rural Texas and New Mexico have been infected with measles ‒ and the nation's largest outbreak in six years is projected to keep surging. What began in a tight-knit West Texas ...
As of Tuesday, June 24, the number of measles cases in West Texas (750) had not changed since the last update on Tuesday, ...
Long before the measles outbreak and COVID, she navigated situations like Lubbock’s high sexually transmited infections and teen pregnancy rates. Lubbock is the largest city in Texas’ South ...
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon) The outbreak includes 14 Texas ...
Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed measles cases in total since the disease was first reported in West Texas in late January as part of the ongoing outbreak, having reached 624 cases this week.
A Texas health authority is warning against "measles parties" as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 cases, with 20 hospitalized and one unvaccinated school-age child dead.The outbreak ...
Texas health officials reported Friday morning that 146 measles cases have been identified in the state since the outbreak started in late January, with one death of a child. According to the ...
Kelly Johnson Pirtle holds her six-week-old son, John, on April 9, 2025, in Lubbock. (Annie Rice For The Texas Tribune, Annie Rice For The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly ...