Many of the patients are being treated in Lubbock, a medical hub for the South Plains where the outbreak originated.

"We are seeing the proliferation of vaccine hesitancy, with a pronounced partisan split," a health expert told Newsweek.

A second case of measles has been confirmed in McLennan County. The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District says this ...

AMERICA’S MEASLES outbreak is alarming for several reasons. What began as a handful of cases in Texas in January has now ...

The confirmation of a measles case in Kyle is raising concerns about how much the contagious virus could spread, like it has ...

There are more than 1,000 confirmed cases of measles nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, as outbreaks of the highly contagious illness spread across Texas ...

Texas has reported over 700 measles cases since January, according to the latest numbers from the state’s health department, representing the bulk of measles cases that have been reported in the ...

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 ...

Texas has the vast majority of measles ... scientists told various state officials about the current situation. The southwest measles outbreak has followed the same path as the previous largest ...

Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed measles cases in total since the disease was first reported in West Texas in late January, as part of the ongoing outbreak, reaching 646 cases by the end of the week.

The measles outbreak in Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed cases in 2025, with nearly 30 new infections reported since April 18, the state health department said. As of April 22, there have been ...