Texas health

This brings the West Texas outbreak to 663 cases since its inception in late January.

Texas lawmakers advanced a bill to change the language in the state's abortion laws in an effort to clarify when doctors are allowed to perform an abortion during a medical emergency. The bill, which passed unanimously in the Texas Senate on Tuesday, is the first time Republican lawmakers have sought to amend the state's ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.

This brings the West Texas outbreak to more than 600 cases since the outbreak began in late January.

Billboard ads luring Texas providers to the north have been placed in Houston and Dallas.

The Texas outbreak is nearing 600 cases since January.

Fifty-eight patients have been hospitalized since the outbreak began in late January.

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.

With cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas and other states will have to spend more on public health. The biggest expense of a measles outbreak is the public health response in shutting down the outbreak.

Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.

The Texas Department of State Health Services on Tuesday confirmed 24 more cases of measles since last Friday.