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 ...

There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a ...

In an interview Wednesday, Jake Fehr, the pastor at Seminole’s Mennonite Evangelical Church in Gaines County, said there's a ...

Gaines County Mennonites. The backstory. There is a large Mennonite community in West Texas. A group of Mennonites moved from ...

Nolt also explained that the Mennonites who live in Seminole, Texas, a city at the center of Gaines County -- a community known as Low German Mennonites, due to the language they speak -- "lived ...

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 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 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 ...

At last count, 214 people in Gaines County have been vaccinated for measles since the outbreak. Holbrooks believes that number is not higher because some people fear debunked ideas about its safety.

In a German-language Mennonite newspaper community brief dated Jan. 27 — three days before Texas officials announced cases in Gaines County — two people from Seminole, the county's largest ...

A close-knit but under-vaccinated Mennonite community is at the center of Texas' measles outbreak, which has at least 90 patients. ... Gaines County, which counts about 22,000 residents, ...