Five years later, Austin ISD had some of the state’s highest number of kindergarteners who neglected those state requirements — about 1 in 5 kindergarteners had not proven they were fully vaccinated ...

Health experts warn of rising measles cases nationwide and in Texas as Nueces County reports low vaccination rates among ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johan Arzade, 12, looks at his COVID-19 vaccination record card after receiving a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a clinic organized ...

Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's been a long and tragic year, but help with COVID-19 is on the way. Pfizer is in the process of applying for an emergency use authorization (EAU) from the FDA for its ...

People should “for sure” fear measles, health official Dr. Mehmet Oz said, as U.S. measles cases continue to grow ...

The Tribune examined kindergarten measles vaccination compliance because it’s the earliest the state documents school vaccination rates and measles can be especially deadly for young children. The ...

(The Texas Tribune) Before the pandemic helped fuel the growth of vaccine politicization across the country, less than 1% of Austin school district’s kindergarteners in the fall of 2019 failed to ...

This story was first published on Oct. 13, 2025 by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, ...