Close to half of Texas public school districts and private schools reported kindergarten measles vaccination rates below the 95% threshold that has long been considered the percentage that protects ...
The alert follows the recent confirmation of Houston's third measles case of the year, which health officials say involves an ...
The Houston Health Department says the infant's illness is not related to two measles cases reported in the city in January ...
HOUSTON — The Houston Health Department on Sunday confirmed that an infant in the city has been diagnosed with the measles.
A measles case in a Houston infant has been confirmed as the third case of measles in the city, according to the Houston ...
State evaluating how to cover funding to fight measles outbreak that had come from the CDC. Addiction treatment funding also cut.
According to the health department, the infant, who was unvaccinated, was exposed to measles during international travel.
Although measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, it still rages on in many parts of the world. With decreasing vaccination rates across the US, experts say, imported cases can ...
The third case, an unvaccinated infant, comes two months after the health department confirmed the city's first two cases of ...
A measles outbreak in Kansas doubled in less than a week to 23 cases and has "a possible link” to outbreaks in Texas and New ...
Declining childhood vaccination rates left parts of Texas vulnerable to a measles outbreak that continues to worsen, and ...
A Houston health official said the city is currently monitoring wastewater treatment plants, manholes and schools for measles ...