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Texas may have declared its measles outbreak over, but rising cases elsewhere and the return to school mean it could easily ...
Emails show how overwhelmed West Texas officials were as they asked CDC for guidance on how to respond to the explosive ...
Texas health officials on Aug. 18 declared the end of a measles outbreak that had sickened more than 760 people across the state and killed two children. Doctors and public-health officials involved ...
A measles outbreak in Texas this year became the worst the United States has endured in more than three decades. Under pressure, the CDC did not proactively reach out to local health authorities. “My ...
If a person with measles is in the same room with 10 unvaccinated people, nine will be infected, researchers estimate. If those nine go about their lives in public spaces, numbers multiply ...
As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — ...
As a measles outbreak exploded in Texas in February, local health officials struggled to reach CDC scientists who were grappling with changes under the new Trump administration, according to ...
Texas has just moved to make it easier for parents to exempt their children from school vaccination requirements—just weeks after the worst measles outbreak in a generation ended. 762 people ...
The West Texas measles outbreak has thankfully ended. Between late January and earlier this month, more than 760 Texans caught the preventable disease, 99 were hospitalized, and two children died.
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The deadly measles outbreak in West Texas has ended seven months after the first cases were reported, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday. A total of 762 ...