Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles ...

The U.S. has seen more measles cases in 2025 than in any year since the virus was declared "eliminated" in 2000.

In an interview Wednesday, Jake Fehr, the pastor at Seminole’s Mennonite Evangelical Church in Gaines County, said there's a "misconception" that all Mennonites aren't vaccinated. The 40-year ...

U.S. measles cases hit 1,277—the worst outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, surpassing 2019's peak ...

Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

In an interview Wednesday, Jake Fehr, the pastor at Seminole’s Mennonite Evangelical Church in Gaines County, said there's a "misconception" that all Mennonites aren't vaccinated. The 40-year ...

Gaines County is also home to one of the highest rates of school-aged children in Texas who have opted out of at least one required vaccine, with nearly 14% skipping a required dose last school year.

Gaines County, which encompasses Seminole, is home to 15,081 farmers, oil workers, business owners, bankers and others. About one-fifth of them are believed to belong to the Mennonite faith.

While it's unclear which specific Mennonite community has been affected, Gaines County is home to a group with a distinctive migration history called the Old Colony Mennonites, according to AP.

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 ...