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Editor's note: From January 2025 through June 2025, The Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health ...
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.
Texas’ measles outbreak isn’t slowing. ... F. Kennedy Jr., right, arrives at Reinlander Mennonite Church after a second measles death of a child, on Sunday in Seminole, Texas.
The Texas Department of State Health Services says no new measles cases have been detected in the last week in connection to ...
Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been ...
Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne. It is preventable through vaccines and has been considered ...
Texas has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children.
Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...
Teddy Rosenbluth has reported on the West Texas measles outbreak since early February. Lucinda Holt reported on Sunday from Seminole, Texas. Published April 6, 2025 Updated April 7, 2025 ...
SEMINOLE, Texas — On a Saturday in mid-March, Dr. Ben Edwards put on his scrubs and drove to a sheet metal building in this tiny West Texas city to treat children with measles. Red spots mottled ...
SEMINOLE, Texas — On a Saturday in mid-March, Dr. Ben Edwards put on his scrubs and drove to a sheet metal building in this tiny West Texas city to treat children with measles.