Because their insurance did not cover the cost of vaccinations, the family qualified for a variety of options to help lower ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services says three new measles cases have been detected in the last week in connection ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services reported 753 confirmed cases of measles in the state on Tuesday, with the ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the first case of measles in 2025 in Bexar ...

Childhood vaccines prevent 4 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the measles vaccine will save some 19 million lives by ...

Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children.

In Texas, measles immunization rates in the state and kindergarteners dropped around two and a half percent between 2019 and 2023, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Over 130 people in rural Texas and New Mexico have been infected with measles ‒ and the nation's largest outbreak in six years is projected to keep surging. What began in a tight-knit West Texas ...

But in Texas, his department’s cuts mean state and local health departments are losing $125 million in immunization-related federal funding as they deal with the measles outbreak.

The West Texas measles outbreak is far from the largest in the United States in recent years. In 2019, outbreaks in at least two dozen states sickened more than 1,250 people.

Summer travel raises fears that the highly infectious virus will spread. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 ...