U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week he would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella ...
Texas health department data shows that a majority of the reported ... Some patients’ respiratory issues progressed to ...
The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child. The child was unvaccinated and had ...
Turner died Tuesay evening, prompting Texas state Rep. Senfronia Thompson and others to honor him on the House floor Wednesday. Read more: ...
Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...
The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.
The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa ... Most kids will recover from the measles if they get it, ...
The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...
Severe cases can result in blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis ... 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. Other affected Texas counties also fall below a goal of 95%, set by HHS, that ...