For a community to be protected against contagious diseases, enough residents need to be vaccinated to provide “herd immunity ...

The People’s Voice cited South Plains Public Health District vaccination clinics held Feb. 6 and 7 in Gaines County. On Feb. 5, the Texas state health department confirmed Gaines had six cases of ...

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...

Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are ...

As the measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, North Texas doctors say they’re fielding a growing number of ...

The number of confirmed measles cases in western Texas grew to 146, and it is possibly spreading to the central part of the ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County has more than doubled in a week. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.

The Hays County Health Department said a Gaines County resident visited San Marcos, where Texas State is located, on Feb. 14.

A paramedic administers a dose of the measles vaccine at a health center in Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 27, 2025. The West Texas ...

On the Texas A&M campus right outside Rudder Tower stands a symbol of progress: a statue of Matthew Gaines. Born into slavery ...