Latest data shows significant rise in parents sending kindergarteners to school without the required measles vaccine.
While a measles outbreak in west Texas rages on, smaller reports of cases are popping up in the Texas panhandle.On Sunday, the Dallam-Hartley County Hospital Di
More:An increase in Texas measles numbers has spurred an OK State Department of Health alert. Dr. Scofield Prescribes. For most adults, there’s no need to get a measles booster.
OSDH sent out a health alert advising clinicians in Oklahoma to consider measles among patients with compatible symptoms amid a measles outbreak in Texas.
Measles is highly contagious. Doctors say the symptoms start like a common cold with a fever, cough or runny nose and then a few days later a rash forms. “You’re actually cont
WELL, THE MEASLES OUTBREAK IN TEXAS NOW REACHING 124 CASES AND JUST IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO, TEXAS REPORTING ONE DEATH. ALMOST ALL CASES ARE IN PEOPLE WHO ARE UNVACCINATED. NEW MEXICO HAS AT LEAST NINE CASES NOW HERE AT HOME.
Texas and New Mexico are not the only border states that have seen an increase in measles cases recently. A year ago, measles was found in Missouri.