Immunization programs nationwide have been left brittle by years of stagnant funding by federal, state and local governments.

Overall, Texas has among the lowest per capita state funding for public health in the nation, just $17 per person in 2023, ...

On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles ...

Public health officials say a day care facility in a Texas county that's part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the curve is flattening in the measles outbreak in Texas. Public health experts say ...

At least six children at a day care in Lubbock, Texas, tested positive for measles amid the state's growing outbreak, local ...

Measles cases in Texas are rising, with five new counties now added to the outbreak zone, the Texas Department of State ...

Many people not getting tested for measles or don't have access to test for highly infectious disease as outbreak area ...

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U ...

A spokesperson for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child was "receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized" and was not vaccinated.

With two measles deaths - both children - in the state, officials struggle to convince communities to vaccinate.