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 ...
The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...
Devastated because an otherwise healthy child succumbed to an illness that one of our safest and most effective vaccines can prevent. And infuriated because the path from the elimination of ...
Before the measles vaccine, there were over 30 million cases of the disease worldwide each year.
Vaccines are the most effective tools to combat measles. Breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated — are extremely ...
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.