Spotlighting the West Texas community at the center of a measles outbreak - Report for America

Spotlighting the West Texas community at the center of a measles outbreak - Report for America

Measles — a preventable disease the U.S. considered eliminated in 2000 — recently spread through a Mennonite community along with an outbreak of misinformation about vaccines. For this exclusive story in collaboration with the Associated Press, corps member Carlos Nogueras Ramos observed and interviewed the religious community and its leaders with compassion while also helping readers understand how the virus has continued to spread through lack…