Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
The Mennonite population being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of ...
The Hill6d
Why the Texas measles outbreak was ‘inevitable’
Physicians in the state say the current situation was “inevitable” due to the low rates of vaccination among the largely Mennonite community. As of Feb. 21, the Texas Department of State ...
First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that’s infected more than 120 people
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that ...
Newsweek5d
The Religious Community at the Center of Texas' Measles Outbreak
The majority of measles patients in Texas—85 percent—are children. Most of the cases have been concentrated in the under-vaccinted, close-knit local Mennonite community, according to Texas ...
The Texas Tribune5d
West Texas measles cases rise to 124. Here is what you need to know.
In Texas, the virus has concentrated on the Mennonite community in Gaines County. One of the county’s local public school district with only 143 students, according to 2023-24 school year data ...
Houston Chronicle12d
200-300 Texans feared ailing of measles as disease spreads through state
The outbreak is happening in what state officials are calling a "close-knit, undervaccinated" Mennonite community in Gaines County, a rural area in West Texas about 87 miles southwest of Lubbock.
Dallas Morning News3d
Why Texas measles outbreak may be ‘the tip of a bigger iceberg’
Texas health officials believe the ongoing outbreak began in a Mennonite community in Gaines County. The county seat, Seminole, sits near the New Mexico border, about 350 miles west of Dallas and ...
Dallas Morning News12d
Texas measles outbreak is the state’s largest in 30 years
Mennonite leaders have talked publicly about ... and the cases spread through a Tarrant County megachurch. In total, Texas saw 27 measles cases in 2013, which was the highest yearly count in ...
NBC News12d
In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight
Texas, and the epicenter of the current measles outbreak. It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers. There’s also a large Mennonite population ...
CBS News8d
Measles outbreak in Texas rises to at least 58 cases — the state's worst in over 30 years
Mennonite community that has very low vaccination rates. And unfortunately, we have seen vaccination rates exemptions ... really soar in Texas in recent years," she said. Measles is known as being ...
San Antonio Current5d
West Texas measles cases rise to 90
In Texas, the virus has concentrated on the Mennonite community in Gaines County. One of the county’s local public school district with only 143 students, according to 2023-24 school year data ...