Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large, smoldering outbreak that was kindled in an undervaccinated pocket of West ...

Measles cases have been reported by 39 states and jurisdictions in the United States, the worst outbreak since 2019.

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

In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine's ...

About three dozen of the nearly 1,200 measles infections in 2025 have been in people with two measles vaccine doses, the CDC says.

There have been six measles outbreaks so far this year, a CDC spokesperson told CBS News on Friday. The outbreak in Texas and neighboring states makes up the majority of cases.

As of Friday, the CDC had confirmed a total of 1,024 U.S. measles cases, most tied to outbreaks such as the one that originated in Texas and has since spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma.

In the U.S. measles outbreak from 1989 to 1991, the CDC found seven to 11 people out of every 100,000 infected with measles were estimated to be at risk for developing SSPE, but some studies have ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has surged to 561 cases, an increase of 20 cases since mid-April. The CDC will reportedly send more personnel to Texas in response.

A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is now on the ground in that state to respond. The agency posted on X that it’s ...

The same is true at the national level, CDC data shows. In Gaines County, the epicenter of the West Texas outbreak, only around 82% of kindergarteners were vaccinated for measles in the 2023-24 ...

CDC scientist: Texas measles outbreak response hurt by funding cuts. The CDC is struggling to respond to the measles outbreak in Texas. The U.S. has reported more than 700 cases in 25 states.