The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 124 cases across nine counties.

The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases.

Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death.

Texas health officials insist delta-8 is an illegal substance and has been for 40 years.

Even though captive tigers are a “serious threat,” the Humane Society of the United States said there are likely more tigers in captivity than there are in the wild across the world. “The Humane Society of the United States strongly opposes keeping tigers and other wild animals as pets,” she said. Here’s an expanded list of prohibited animals in Bexar County, according to an order from the Commissioners Court:Prohibited animals in Bexar County, according to an order from the Commissioners Court. AdNorwood said more than 15 years have passed since ACS last helped retrieve a tiger from a San Antonio home. Those include game wardens with the Texas Parks and Wildlife, the San Antonio Zoo or different animal sanctuaries.

SAN ANTONIO – Additional shipments of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will head out to hundreds of pharmacies, clinics and hospitals throughout Texas this week, including 5,650 doses in 31 facilities in Bexar County. Other nearby counties receiving vaccine doses include four facilities in Comal, three facilities in Frio, eight facilities in Guadalupe, five facilities in Karnes and three facilities in Uvalde. More than 944,000 vaccines have already been shipped to providers in Texas and only 414,200 have been administered as of Tuesday, data from the state health department shows. The state health department said another 121,875 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will head to 770 long-term health care facilities in Texas this week. These are for people who received their first dose on the week of Dec. 14, the state health department states.

Local media reported that a similar data dump happened in Florida this week, with around 14,000 tests added from one lab in Miami. The sudden increase in the number of tests made Texas seven-day positivity rate drop from a record-high 24.5% to 16%. The number of reported tests has gone down quicker than the number of new infections reported. State and local officials in Texas have also described a drop in demand for COVID-19 tests. Almost every major data point has come with caveats, sometimes blurring for days the big picture of the pandemic in Texas.

In early June, the states contact tracing workforce numbered about 2,900, and it reached almost 3,200 later in the month before dropping again. If you dont have enough people out there doing [contact tracing], its difficult to stay on top of it. Its kind of like the dams being broken open, said Rodney Rohde, a virologist and epidemiologist at Texas State University. Anton said the states workforce can scale up as needed, including by recalling the DSHS employees who were taken off contact tracing. Our goal is to match the contact tracing staff we have to the workload as closely as possible, Anton said.