Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

Measles is a respiratory disease caused by one of the world's most contagious viruses. It spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It most commonly affects kids. The best ...

Texas health officials announced the death of a child in a measles outbreak – the first measles death in the United States ...

The deadly return measles highlights growing gaps in immunization coverage across the US and globally, raising concerns among ...

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have ...

Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States are driving up case counts and raising alarm among public health experts, especially as vaccination rates among children lag. The concern this ...

The news that an outbreak in Texas has caused the nation’s first confirmed measles death in a decade — an unvaccinated child ...

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 10.3 million people were infected with measles and 107,500 died.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must lead on vaccination efforts, not continue to sow doubt about ...

Symptoms can last for one to two weeks. On Friday, the state Health Department proactively sent a memo to Oklahoma clinicians asking them to consider measles among patients who present with a fever ...

New measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky with the one common factor being a lack of measles ...

Here's what to know about the measles and how to protect yourself. It's a respiratory disease caused by one of the world's most contagious viruses. The virus is airborne and spreads easily when an ...