Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

This year’s outbreaks, some of them interconnected, started five months ago in undervaccinated communities in West Texas.

Anti-vaccine activists seized on a measles outbreak in Seminole, Texas, and turned the small Mennonite city into a battleground between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

The largest outbreak in the United States began in a Mennonite community on the western edge of Texas. Areas with smaller outbreaks, like Oklahoma and Southwest Kansas, also have sizable Mennonite ...

One of the key sources of information about measles for Mennonites in Texas comes from Steinbach. That’s where Die Mennonitische Post, a German-language newspaper, is published 21 times a year ...

When Texas officials first discovered measles cases this year, they were among the Mennonite population. Now, officials say cases are spreading to other communities.

Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images (LUBBOCK, Texas) — When the first measles cases were confirmed in western Texas, health officials said the infections primarily affected the Mennonite community ...

Gaines County is a vast, flat expanse far in the west of Texas: more than 1,500 square miles of sparsely populated farmland. And right now, this is the epicenter of a measles outbreak the likes of ...

Measles is hitting them hard in West Texas. Who are the Mennonites, and why are they so vulnerable to the outbreak? A San Antonio pastor has the answers.

The virus is spreading among a Texas Mennonite community, where government mandates are not trusted. But another outbreak is also spreading, and that's mistrust in vaccines and public health.

SEMINOLE, Texas (AP) — Measles had struck this West Texas town, sickening dozens of children, but at the Community Church of Seminole, more than 350 worshippers gathered for a Sunday service.