From the @TexasTribune, in school districts and charter networks with the most vaccine delinquencies, as many as 44% of kindergarteners were not complying with state requirements.
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Texas emergency rooms have seen a sharp increase in cases of COVID-19 since kids returned to school in early August.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting the measles outbreak in West Texas has ended.
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Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain.
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Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.
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Records released Tuesday show the camp met state regulations for disaster procedures, but details of the plan remain unclear. On July 4, torrential rain caused the Guadalupe River to rise rapidly, overwhelming the camp.
A federal judge ruled that the state of Texas for decades unnecessarily institutionalized 4,500 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in nursing home facilities, denying them services that are required under federal law.
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The ruling came in a class action lawsuit filed 15 years ago on behalf of institutionalized plaintiffs represented by the Center for Public Representation, Disability Rights Texas and Sidley Austin LLP.
The Houston area -- so far -- remains untouched by a West Texas measles outbreak that grew to more than 200 cases on Tuesday. The city health department is monitoring wastewater treatment plants for the virus.
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Houston and Harris County leaders, along with local health officials, have two main messages for residents of the region: Get vaccinated against measles and get familiar with its symptoms.
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A large swath of East Harris County along the San Jacinto River -- where toxic waste was identified more than a decade ago -- was found to have 'significantly greater' instances of some types of cancer compared to the state average.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services, at the request of the nonprofit Texas Health and Environmental Alliance, studied cancer rates in a 65-census-tract area in the floodplain surrounding the San Jacinto River, both upstream and downstream of toxic waste pits. Instances of leukemia were more than three times the state average, according to the study, which examined the period between 2013-21.
The largest measles outbreak in decades has reached San Antonio, New Braunfels and San Marcos, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Officials say an individual who tested positive for the virus in West Texas traveled to two major universities and one of the nation's busiest tourist attractions — the San Antonio River Walk.
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