SEMINOLE, Texas — When the local hospital warned of a brewing measles outbreak, Kaleigh Brantner urged fellow residents of this rural West Texas community to beware of vaccinating their children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that it is working closely with Texas health officials ...

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A counterpoint to Kennedy’s dry nonchalance comes from Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center ...

One of the public health threats close to my heart is the future of vaccines and the emerging measles epidemic. Misinformation has usurped science.

Stephen Robert, chief operations officer for the past four years, is now president and CEO. Longtime leader Jerry Haag will ...

Most of the recent confirmed measles cases in Texas have been in the South Plains region, but this patient was exposed to the disease while traveling overseas.

Last Wednesday, during President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting, Robert F. | Public health experts are sounding the alarm about the outbreak and warn that communities with low immunization rates ...

New Mexico hasn't sounded alarm bells yet on the Lea County measles outbreak, which has presented no new cases since Feb. 21.

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday.

Measles can cause complications like pneumonia, brain swelling, long-term hearing loss and death — as is the case in the current Texas outbreak. In the decade before the measles vaccine, the CDC ...

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 but has since made a comeback which experts attribute to international travel and the rise of anti-vaccine sentiment. It remains to be seen ...