Kelly Johnson Pirtle is one of many new parents in Lubbock who are growing more anxious as the measles outbreak, and vaccine skepticism, spreads. Credit: Annie Rice for The Texas Tribune ...

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

The measles outbreak in Texas has surpassed 600 confirmed cases in 2025, with nearly 30 new infections reported since April 18, the state health department said.. As of April 22, there have been ...

A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak ... mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

Kelly Johnson Pirtle is one of many new parents in Lubbock who are growing more anxious as the measles outbreak, and vaccine skepticism, spreads. Credit: Annie Rice for The Texas Tribune ...

Long before the measles outbreak and COVID, she navigated situations like Lubbock’s high sexually transmited infections and teen pregnancy rates. Lubbock is the largest city in Texas’ South ...

Public health officials say a day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has ... at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

A Texas health authority is warning against "measles parties" as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 cases, with 20 hospitalized and one unvaccinated school-age child dead.The outbreak ...

Over 130 people in rural Texas and New Mexico have been infected with measles ‒ and the nation's largest outbreak in six years is projected to keep surging. What began in a tight-knit West Texas ...

Kelly Johnson Pirtle holds her six-week-old son, John, on April 9, 2025, in Lubbock. (Annie Rice For The Texas Tribune, Annie Rice For The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly ...

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