A record share of US kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, and coverage for all ...

U.S. measles case count hits 33-year high — and Texas’ outbreak is to blame Well over half of the country’s 2025 measles cases stem from the massive spread that began in Texas. By Emily Brindley ...

Lubbock County in Texas has been free of measles cases for more than 50 days. But Katherine Wells, director of the Lubbock Health Department, is staying vigilant.

DALLAS — Already in 2025, the United States has reported more measles cases than in any full year since the early ‘90s, according to federal data. And that record-setting case count has been ...

Gaines County, the epicenter of the massive Texas measles outbreak that began in January, no longer has ongoing measles transmission, public health officials said on Tuesday.

Johns Hopkins’ data showed 790 confirmed cases in Texas — the epicenter of the current measles outbreak — while 95 cases were reported in New Mexico.

The epicenter of the crisis is Texas, particularly Gaines County, where 414 of the state’s 753 cases have been reported ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to declare a Public Health Emergency for measles as cases hit the highest levels in decades. In a ...

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all ...

In Dallas, which has had one measles case this year, health officials had to lay off 16 immunization staff because of federal cuts, said Philip Huang, director of the county’s health and human ...