Measles is spreading across West Texas. The county at the center has one of state’s highest vaccine exemption rates

Two dozen cases of measles have been reported in a small West Texas county that has one of the state’s highest vaccine exemption rates.

In Gaines County, which has a population of about 22,000, 24 cases of the airborne infectious disease have been reported since late January. Most of them are unvaccinated, school-aged children.