The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...

One hundred forty-six measles cases have been reported in the outbreak in West Texas, the Texas Department of Health Services said in an update today. This is 22 more confirmed cases since an update ...

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have ...

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

The measles outbreak — the largest in the state in 30 years — has spread from two cases in late January and now includes nine counties, most of them in the rural South Plains ...

Dr. Hal Scofield is a physician-scientist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and he also serves as associate chief ...

With a measles outbreak in West Texas, parents are revisiting their children's vaccine records as doctors stress the ...

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak ...

Here’s what to know about the outbreak after the first U.S. death since 2015 from the highly contagious—but ...

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low ...

Before there was a vaccine in 1963, measles infected millions and killed hundreds of people in the U.S. every year. Now, with the first measles death occurring in over a decade, doctors warn that ...