The 2025 Measles Outbreak: A West Texas Doctor’s Fight for Her Patients and a Nation’s Health
The 2025 Measles Outbreak: A West Texas Doctor’s Fight for Her Patients and a Nation’s Health For three decades, Dr. Tammy Camp, a pediatrician in Lubbock, Texas, had never treated a measles case. Then, the 2025 Southwest outbreak hit, transforming her practice and the lives of her patients. “Mothers are crying in my clinic,” Dr. Camp recounted at a National Academy of Medicine update. Their newborns, too young for the measles vaccine, are at risk, adding to the families’ existing…