The People’s Voice cited South Plains Public Health District vaccination clinics held Feb. 6 and 7 in Gaines County. On Feb. 5, the Texas state health department confirmed Gaines had six cases of ...

For a community to be protected against contagious diseases, enough residents need to be vaccinated to provide “herd immunity ...

The number of measles cases in Gaines County has more than doubled in a week. State officials confirmed this week an unvaccinated school-aged child died from measles in Lubbock.

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child.

On the Texas A&M campus right outside Rudder Tower stands a symbol of progress: a statue of Matthew Gaines. Born into slavery ...

Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in rural West Texas outbreak that led this ...

Texas health officials have confirmed 24 total cases of measles in Gaines County and a new case in Terry County on Tuesday.

according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Most of the cases are centered in Gaines County, which is reporting 45 cases. Other surrounding areas are seeing spread of the illness ...

There is a measles outbreak in the South Plains region of Texas, with 58 confirmed cases, primarily in Gaines County, which ...

Texas health officials believe the ongoing outbreak began in a Mennonite community in Gaines County. The county seat, Seminole, sits near the New Mexico border, about 350 miles west of Dallas and ...

Texas state officials first issued the Health Alert earlier this month after several cases of measles were reported in Gaines County, Texas. The first two reported cases occurred in late January.

The city of Seminole is the seat of Gaines County, Texas, and the epicenter of the current measles outbreak. It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers.