measles

Dallas County Health and Human Services said the case involves a woman in her 20s who is fully vaccinated.

Collin County has had its third confirmed measles case in McKinney.

Gilbert Handal witnessed the devastating toll of measles on children in a Chilean hospital before the vaccine. Now, he warns of the dangers of forgetting that past.

The two cases were confirmed as part of the outbreak by the Texas Department of State Health Services on Tuesday.

It’s not clear where the two patients contracted the disease.

Denton County Public Health reported the first case of measles in the county Wednesday afternoon. The infected person is an adult with unknown vaccination status, DCPH reports.

Tarrant County Public Health received a report of a measles exposure at Texas Live! and Globe Life Field April 19.

The case involves a student at Willow Springs Middle School in Lucas. It's not connected to a possible Plano measles exposure reported last week, health officials said.

Collin County health care services confirmed a measles case in Plano involving a contagious person who visited several malls.

The Rockwall County Commissioners Court said on social media the person, who has since recovered, may have traveled to West Texas recently.

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs.

Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease