A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

Gaines County in West Texas reportedly has 10 cases of measles, with eight among school-aged children. According to the Texas Tribune, all the individuals were unvaccinated, and seven have been hospitalized.

Texas Health and Human Services reports that seven children have been hospitalized with the disease. All were unvaccinated.

Measles cases are growing in West Texas and health officials are sounding the alarm about the outbreak that we are seeing and the possibility that the outbreak will grow larger. Last week we reported on two cases from Gaines County that were children who weren't vaccinated against measles and were being hospitalized in Lubbock hospitals.

Two children were hospitalized with measles in West Texas the same month the highly contagious respiratory illness was also found in two Houston residents.