More measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas.

Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has confirmed the first death in the state from measles occurred at its facilities. Here is what we know.

The United Family pharmacies will be offering the MMR vaccine to protect against measles to local Texas communities. Here is what we know.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease. Texas health officials say the school-aged child, not vaccinated, and was hospitalized last week. Now, Alabama and Florida health officials are sounding the alarm.

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Una persona en el oeste de Texas que fue hospitalizada con sarampión ha fallecido, la primera muerte en un brote que comenzó a fines del mes pasado. La portavoz del Centro de Ciencias de la Salud de l

Representative Kim Schrier, a Washington Congresswoman and former pediatrician, said the measles outbreak in Texas could have been avoided.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an op-ed Monday calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light of the nearly 50 measles cases that have been confirmed among mostly unvaccinated children in Texas.

The Mexia Independent School District reported on its Facebook page they had a confirmed case of measles, which the health department later said was not the case.

Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping Texas’ measles response.

Measles is a highly contagious, infectious disease that can spread easily among people who have not been vaccinated.