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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...