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How measles tore through a remote West Texas city
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream ...
Texas health department reports no additional measles cases in the state since June 3
The Texas health department reported no new cases of measles on Friday, the first time the state has not recorded an increase ...
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Measles Update: DSHS head says 'We appear to be at the downward end of this curve'
Measles cases linked to the West Texas outbreak are flat at 742, with no new cases to report for the first time since January ...
How misinformation, medical skepticism impacted measles outbreak in small Texas town
A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, caused hundreds of children to be hospitalized and caused the death of two girls.
Amid measles outbreak, Texas is poised to make vaccine exemptions for kids easier
Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the ...
As measles spreads across the Americas, outbreaks in Mexico and Canada have also turned deadly
As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also experiencing ...
Pennsylvania reports an update to its measles outbreak
There are 1,168 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health officials in Texas, where the nation’s biggest outbreak raged during the late ...
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Measles outbreak ends in Pennsylvania after 6 weeks of no new cases
There are 1,168 confirmed measles cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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Today on Texas Standard: The 89th Legislature is over – and so are lawmakers’ hopes for these bills
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Texas Department of State Health Services commissioner, joins the Standard with an update on efforts to ...