The Mennonite population is being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas. Here's a closer look at the Anabaptist family ...

After Mennonites in Gaines County were singled out in discourse about the spread of measles in Texas, local pastor Jake Fehr ...

An outbreak of measles in West Texas that has led to more than 100 cases and one death has largely been linked to a local Mennonite community.

The measles outbreak in West Texas is significantly impacting the region's Mennonite community. Here's what we know about ...

Physicians in the state say the current situation was “inevitable” due to the low rates of vaccination among the largely Mennonite community. As of Feb. 21, the Texas Department of State ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that ...

The majority of measles patients in Texas—85 percent—are children. Most of the cases have been concentrated in the under-vaccinted, close-knit local Mennonite community, according to Texas ...

In Texas, the virus has concentrated on the Mennonite community in Gaines County. One of the county’s local public school district with only 143 students, according to 2023-24 school year data ...

Texas officials on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease. The death, of a school-age child, is the first measles death in the U.S ...

Texas, and the epicenter of the current measles outbreak. It’s located in a vast, flat region filled with ranchers and peanut and cotton farmers. There’s also a large Mennonite population ...

The outbreak is happening in what state officials are calling a "close-knit, undervaccinated" Mennonite community in Gaines County, a rural area in West Texas about 87 miles southwest of Lubbock.

Mennonite leaders have talked publicly about ... and the cases spread through a Tarrant County megachurch. In total, Texas saw 27 measles cases in 2013, which was the highest yearly count in ...