A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

Texas Health and Human Services reports that seven children have been hospitalized with the disease. All were unvaccinated.

A week after the first case of measles was reported in West Texas in recent memory, Lynn County has reported its first case.

Two children were hospitalized with measles in West Texas the same month the highly contagious respiratory illness was also ...

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Two school-age children from Gaines County who had measles were hospitalized in Lubbock, state officials said.

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 ...

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 ...

(AP Foto/Eric Risberg, Archivo)(Eric Risberg / AP) Texas officials have identified two measles cases in West Texas, both of them in unvaccinated school-age children. The children, who reside in ...