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

There have been at least 1,309 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year. Hundreds or thousands of other families have ...

In an update on Tuesday, July 15, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported 762 confirmed cases of measles in the West Texas outbreak. The cases reported went ...

Editor's note: From January 2025 through June 2025, The Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track new measles cases, hospitalizations and deaths associated ...

West Texas measles cases rise to 259. ... Jaqi Herrera, after Herrera received her first dose of the MMR vaccine at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock on Feb. 27, 2025.

LUBBOCK, Texas — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable ...

DALLAS — More than 700 cases of measles have been reported in Texas, including seven here in North Texas, and two children in Lubbock have died from the virus, health officials said.

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data.

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 fallen over the last four years.

A confirmed case of measles has been reported in Putnam County. Here's what the Monroe County Health Department suggests to ...

Covenant Children's Hospital located in Lubbock on Feb. 26, 2025. The hospital has been treating patients who have fallen ill with measles. Credit: Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribune ...

Covenant Children's Hospital located in Lubbock on Feb. 26, 2025. The hospital has been treating patients who have fallen ill with measles. (Trace Thomas For The Texas Tribune, Trace Thomas For ...