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The Rockwall County Commissioners Court said on social media the person, who has since recovered, may have traveled to West Texas recently.
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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.
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Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease
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Medical disinformation connected to the West Texas measles outbreak has created a new problem. Children are being treated for toxic levels of vitamin A.
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Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
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The Texas Department of Health and Human Services releases updated numbers of cases every Tuesday and Friday.
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Outside of Odessa, a Texas-based oil company is building a facility to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and then store it underground.
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A disaster declaration has been issued for the area in Scurry County in case of future quakes.
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The Rio Grande in the Big Bend has gone dry for the second year in a row, forcing the local tourism industry to adapt to a new reality.
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A years-long plan to ship some of the nation’s most radioactive types of nuclear waste to rural West Texas remains blocked after a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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A technology that could help combat climate change is being championed by an unlikely proponent: Occidental Petroleum, a big oil company. And that's raising all kinds of knotty issues.
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As the black bear population rises, so does their chance of conflict with people.