recent epidemic outbreaks :: Article Creator In Rural West Texas, A Measles Outbreak Grows With No End In Sight SEMINOLE, Texas — When Aganetha Unger pulled up her large, white van to the emergency measles testing site, several of her eight children were coughing. "We had some sickness in the house, not very bad, but some fever, some cough," said Unger, who is Mennonite. One child, she said, had a fever of 103 degrees. Her youngest getting tested was a 2-month-old, wrapped tightly in a pink blanket on her mom's lap. When the EMS team swabbed her nose, she didn't cry. It was Thursday, eight days after the Texas Department of State Health Services first reported a measles outbreak on the rural, western edge of the state. On Tuesday this week, the number of confirmed cases rose to 58, the state health department said. The majority of those cases are in Gaines County, which borders New Mexico. Four of the patients had been ...