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In Gaines County, the epicenter of Texas' outbreak, 80 cases have been identified by state health officials so far. Just over 20,000 people live in Gaines, a rural county that touts itself as a ...
The Texas Department of State Health Services says three new measles cases have been detected in the last week in connection ...
Texas state health officials confirmed 19 new cases of measles connected to the outbreak in West Texas since the May 2 update. Gaines County, which has reported the most cases since January ...
On January 30, officials reported two measles cases in unvaccinated, school-age children in Gaines County, which sits at the border of New Mexico and is around 90 miles southwest of Lubbock, Texas.
The outbreak is clustered in a small county in West Texas that is home to about 22,500 people. The share of K-12 students in Gaines County with a conscientious exemption for at least one vaccine ...
The Texas health department reported the number of measles cases in Gaines County in West Texas is now 10. Most are children and all were unvaccinated. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune ...
The measles outbreak first reported in Gaines County, Texas, has doubled to 48 cases since a count released earlier this week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday. The first ...
The measles outbreak began in Gaines County in late January. It has now spread across 23 counties in Texas, plus the states of New Mexico and Oklahoma. On April 30, Denton County Public Health ...
No, vaccines did not cause the Gaines County, Texas, measles case spike Dozens of children have contracted measles in the state’s largest outbreak in 33 years. Online, some are blaming vaccines ...
Gaines County is the epicenter of the current measles outbreak. ... Northwest Texas measles outbreak grows to 146 cases, including child's death. As lawmakers push more 'anti-vaccine' policies, ...
Gaines County is the epicenter of the current measles outbreak. ... Northwest Texas measles outbreak grows to 146 cases, including child's death. As lawmakers push more 'anti-vaccine' policies, ...