According to the Nueces County Public Health District, this is roughly five times the number reported during the same period ...

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Over 3,500 whooping cough cases were reported in the state last month, around four times the number reported for the same period last year ...

DSHS has recorded 3,500 pertussis cases through October 2025 — "roughly four times the number reported for the same period ...

( The Texas Tribune) More than 3,500 cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, cases have been reported in Texas so far this ...

Texas is reporting a significant increase in cases of pertussis, or better known as whooping cough, a highly contagious ...

Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. Annie ...

The measles outbreak centered in West Texas – one of the largest and deadliest in centuries – has ended, state health officials announced on Monday.No new cases have been reported in the counties that ...

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — Dr. Jake Margo Jr. stood in the triage room at Starr County Memorial Hospital explaining why a person with persistent fever who could be treated with over-the-counter ...

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.

Weeks after state lawmakers paved the way during the Legislature’s last regular session, the Texas Department of Public Safety has announced the creation of a new Homeland Security Division. The new ...