Texas Health and Human Services reports that seven children have been hospitalized with the disease. All were unvaccinated.
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
A week after the first case of measles was reported in West Texas in recent memory, Lynn County has reported its first case.
GAINES COUNTY — Gaines County in West Texas reportedly has 10 cases of measles, with eight among school-aged children. According to the Texas Tribune, all the individuals were unvaccinated, and seven ...
Two children were hospitalized with measles in West Texas the same month the highly contagious respiratory illness was also ...
Two school-age children from Gaines County who had measles were hospitalized in Lubbock, state officials said.
Two cases of measles have been confirmed in school-aged children in West Texas less than two weeks after the highly contagious respiratory illness was also reported in a pair of Houston residents.
A week after the first case of measles was reported in West Texas in recent memory, Lynn County has reported its first measles case, making it the third case in the region. The announcement came ...
Lubbock and Texas health officials have confirmed 6 cases of measles in Gaines County, with others being investigated in the ...
However, SPPHD announced a second confirmed case in Gaines County days later. "Both cases are in unvaccinated school-age children who were hospitalized in Lubbock and have since been discharged," ...