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Texas health officials have confirmed 24 total cases of measles in Gaines County and a new case in Terry County on Tuesday. Here's what we know.

On January 30, officials reported two measles cases in unvaccinated, school-age children in Gaines County, which sits at the border of New Mexico and is around 90 miles southwest of Lubbock, Texas.

Some children from Gaines were hospitalized in that county. The disease can cause severe complications, and about one of every thousand children with measles die. An outbreak among a largely ...