As measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — spreads through West Texas’ rural expanse, ...
As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in ...
WASHINGTON—Amid a growing outbreak of measles in Texas, recently confirmed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging ...
Kennedy Jr. at campaign event in November 2023. [AP Photo/Meg Kinnard] The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, which ...
Kennedy said vaccines can protect children and contribute to community immunity, but the decision should still be parents'.
Texas’ ongoing measles outbreak is now up to 124 confirmed cases as of Tuesday. That’s the most the state has seen in any ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described the outbreak in West Texas last week as a “top priority.” But he has not explicitly ...
Texas DSHS in a statement: "The best way to prevent getting sick is to be immunized with two doses of a vaccine against measles, which is primarily administered as the combination ...
A majority of the school systems in the state that have less than 70% of its kindergarteners vaccinated are privately run, according to the Texas ...
With growing cases of measles in Texas and Lubbock reporting the states first death, local health officials hosted a news ...
In rural West Texas, measles has sickened nearly 150 people, most of them unvaccinated. A school-age child has died. The virus is spreading among Gaines County’s Mennonite community, where government ...