Last week, two adults in Houston were diagnosed with measles. Now, two children in Lubbock have reportedly tested positive ...

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After reportedly being eradicated from the U.S. in 2000, there were four times more outbreaks of measles in the U.S. in 2024 ...

Two cases of measles were confirmed on the South Plains this week both within the same family from Gaines county.

Two of the four cases are in Lubbock, which hasn’t seen a case in more than 20 years. Measles vaccination rates in Texas have ...

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Two school-age children from Gaines County who had measles were hospitalized in Lubbock, state officials said.

Two children were hospitalized with measles in West Texas the same month the highly contagious respiratory illness was also ...

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Two school-age children in Gaines County have measles. Find out which Fort Worth schools are protected against an outbreak.