Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

Editor's note: From January 2025 through June 2025, The Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health ...

Texas’ measles outbreak isn’t slowing. ... F. Kennedy Jr., right, arrives at Reinlander Mennonite Church after a second measles death of a child, on Sunday in Seminole, Texas.

About 500 Texans, mostly young unvaccinated children, have contracted the disease. The U.S. health secretary was in West Texas to visit the family.

The Texas Department of State Health Services says no new measles cases have been detected in the last week in connection to ...

Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.” ...

An unvaccinated 6-year-old girl from the Mennonite community in Seminole, Texas, became the first U.S. measles fatality in over a decade when she died in February from pneumonia complications ...

On July 9, 2021, California's Death Valley reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an automated measuring system there, representing one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on the planet.

Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that would make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, despite the current measles outbreak in West Texas. ... in Seminole, Texas.

Slipping vaccination rates in West Texas have led to the state's largest measles outbreak in over 30 years, with more than 500 patients affected as of April 8 and cases spreading to New Mexico and ...

Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.” ...