More measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas.
The state's largest measles outbreak in 30 years has been largely tied to a Mennonite community in rural West Texas. Earlier this month, Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services,
Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has confirmed the first death in the state from measles occurred at its facilities. Here is what we know.
The United Family pharmacies will be offering the MMR vaccine to protect against measles to local Texas communities. Here is what we know.
LUBBOCK, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Una persona en el oeste de Texas que fue hospitalizada con sarampión ha fallecido, la primera muerte en un brote que comenzó a fines del mes pasado. La portavoz del Centr
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease. Texas health officials say the school-aged child, not vaccinated, and was hospitalized last week. Now, Alabama and Florida health officials are sounding the alarm.
Por Neha Mukherjee, CNN La primera muerte por sarampión en el creciente brote registrado en el oeste de Texas fue la de un niño en edad escolar. El niño no estaba vacunado y había sido hospitalizado e
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an op-ed Monday calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light of the nearly 50 measles cases that have been confirmed among mostly unvaccinated children in Texas.
Representative Kim Schrier, a Washington Congresswoman and former pediatrician, said the measles outbreak in Texas could have been avoided.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday upheld the role of vaccines in offering protection against measles after an unvaccinated child succumbed to the infection earlier this week.
Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak