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Anti-vaccine advocate claims he contracted measles while visiting Texas

An anti-vaccine advocate, who routinely spreads misinformation about vaccines, said he contracted measles earlier this year ...
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Better testing, less vaccine messaging among lessons learned from historic Texas measles outbreak

Faced with a skeptical religious community that became the center of the outbreak, public health officials say they may have ...

Texas' largest measles outbreak in decades has subsided, but experts say state remains vulnerable

Texas' largest measles outbreak in decades has subsided, but the state could see another in the future unless vaccination ...

Highly contagious disease found in major Texas city's wastewater

Public Health officials in Central Texas have detected traces of a highly contagious disease in Austin-Travis County ...

U.S. measles cases at highest in 33 years, CDC says. Here’s how many are in Texas

Of the 1,288 measles cases nationwide, a majority of them come from Texas. The Lone Star state’s 753 confirmed cases are the ...

Day care measles exposure forces Iowa family to take weeks off work for baby: 'It only takes one'

There have been at least 1,309 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year. Hundreds or thousands of other families have ...
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Texas measles warning for Central Texas. Here’s what you need to know

A health worker administers a measles test to a car passenger at a mobile testing site outside Seminole Hospital District Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas.

She helped stop measles in her Texas county. She thinks there is an ‘uphill battle’ in the fight against the disease

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