Katherine Wells still remembers finding out that measles had hit West Texas.
It was late January, and Wells, the director of the Lubbock Health Department, was notified that a child from nearby Gaines County was being treated for the respiratory disease at one of the local hospitals in Lubbock County.
At that point Lubbock County had not recorded a measles case in more than 20 years. Neither Wells nor her staff had seen measles in their careers…