Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has confirmed the first death in the state from measles occurred at its ...

Lubbock health authorities have confirmed two measles exposure sites at stores in the city. Here is what we know.

Nearly a month after the first reported case of measles in the South Plains, health officials have confirmed the first death ...

Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...

The Lubbock health department addressed different myths on the internet and social media about the measles illness and the MMR vaccine. Lubbock Public Health District’s assistant director, ...

In Texas, there were 146 cases of measles across the state and the South Plains, with 20 patients hospitalized. The best way ...

For the first time in the United States since 2015, a death attributed to measles has been reported.Officials have confirmed ...

An unvaccinated school-aged child has died from measles in Lubbock. An adult in Rockwall County has also been infected, but is not considered part of the West Texas outbreak. Of the 58 cases of ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has led to a rise in confirmed cases, reaching 124, and the Lubbock health department reported at least 67 people getting the MMR vaccine at their drive-up clinic; ...

In late January, Lubbock health officials announced that a reported case of measles had been detected in Gaines County, Texas. Three weeks later, five counties in Texas are currently being ...

Measles is so contagious partly because an infected ... Ector County at 91% and Lynn, Lubbock and Yoakum around 92%, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, said her hospital has admitted around a dozen children who have measles. Some have ...