Vaccination provides long-lasting 97% protection against measles infection. Most people who have been vaccinated do not need ...
Twenty-five years after the disease was declared “eliminated” in the U.S., cases are rising again, with a Texas outbreak now ...
The New York City Department of Health said a second measles case has been reported, as an outbreak of the disease continues ...
A measles case in Montgomery County and outbreaks in other parts of the country have parents of young children worried about their risk. The local cases, including one in Montgomery County and three ...
Measles has been spreading across the U.S. for the last several weeks, sickening people in at least nine states amid a ...
"Measles is really the most contagious illness that we know of," one expert said, which is why vaccinations are so important.
According to the CDC, if you were born after 1957, one dose is considered sufficient to be considered protected from measles.
As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in ...