Are the children protected?

A growing outbreak of measles in western Texas – the worst in the state in decades – points to the resurgence of a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease. Texas State Department of Health Services reported on Friday of 90 cases of measles in the South Plains region, about 250 miles from El Paso. More than a dozen people were hospitalized. New Mexico’s health officials also confirmed nine cases of measles in neighboring Lea County, until …