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Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades
Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...
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Parents rush to vaccinate children after measles outbreak hits Texas
Five-year-old Shado is one of dozens of children being rushed to a health center in the US state of Texas to get the measles ...
RFK Jr. shrugs shoulders at deadly Texas measles outbreak. What'd you expect? | Opinion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted vaccine skeptic, will get right on the deadly measles outbreak in Texas after he kneecaps a ...
A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade
A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, officials there said Wednesday, the first U.S.
At the center of Texas measles outbreak, a by-the-numbers look at high rates of vaccine exemptions
Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are ...
Texas weather can play a role in helping the measles virus spread rapidly. Here's how
The West Texas measles outbreak continues to see more confirmed cases and, on Wednesday, the outbreak's first death. Weather ...
What did I miss at Lubbock City Council? Zoning change, PFAS testing among top items
What did you miss at this week's city council meeting? Beside the student housing vote, here is what you need to know about ...
Here's everything we know about measles in Texas
The main measles outbreak has been in the South Plains region of West Texas, where 124 cases have been confirmed. Most of the ...
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Lubbock Public Health breaks down myths versus facts about the measles
The Lubbock health department addressed different myths on the internet and social media about the measles illness and the MMR vaccine. Lubbock Public Health District’s assistant director, ...
RFK Jr. said measles outbreaks are ‘not unusual’ in the US. Doctors say he’s wrong
When Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy answered questions during the first cabinet meeting of the ...
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Health officials address measles outbreak on the South Plains as spring break approaches
With spring break just weeks away, Texas Tech students are gearing up for all sorts of travel destinations, but campus health officials are worried with people traveling due to the rising numbers ...
First measles death reported in West Texas outbreak was unvaccinated child, officials say
The Texas Department of State Health Services on Wednesday confirmed the death. DSHS said the patient was an unvaccinated school-aged child.