The West Texas measles outbreak may be hundreds of miles away from Dallas/Fort Worth, but local experts caution that the anti-vaccine mindset that put that community at risk is already here. "So, I tell my patients,

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences.

West Michigan doctors are encouraging parents to have their children vaccinated after an unvaccinated child died of measles in West Texas. It's the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. (Feb. 27,

A child died in the city of Lubbock, the Texas state health department said. The child was unvaccinated against measles.