Public Health

The measles outbreak that started back in January has now turned Gaines County into an…

Tracker here: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/22/texas-measles-outbreak-update/ By late April, Texas logged 663 measles cases across 26 counties—making this…

As if West Texas needed another public health headline, Texas Parks and Wildlife has now…

Lubbock doctors gathered this week to remind everyone that measles isn’t just some itchy inconvenience…

As Texas battles its worst measles outbreak in three decades, one West Texas physician has…

Eight-year-old Daisy Hildebrand died of measles complications in Lubbock this April, and local health officials…

The Texas Department of State Health Services just expanded its measles outbreak map, and guess…

Texas has confirmed its second pediatric measles death in the middle of an outbreak that’s…

At Friday’s Board of Health meeting, Lubbock’s public health director Dr. Katherine Wells confirmed 33…