Ventura County public health officials also sent an alert this month to doctors regarding measles. It cites the national rise ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes ...

A century ago, measles was killing a thousand people in the U.S. every year. By 2000, vaccines had all but eliminated the ...

A measles case was detected in a person who recently visited multiple Children's Hospital of Philadelphia facilities, health ...

“It’s a matter of time before it reaches Sedgwick County,” Adrienne Byrne, the county’s health department director, said in a March 12 interview. If the measles is confirmed in Sedgwick County, Byrne ...

As measles outbreaks spread across the United States, you may be wondering whether you’re at risk in California. As of Thursday, March 13, more than 300 cases of measles had been reported in the ...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is notifying the public of an exposure risk to the measles virus from one confirmed case of measles in Swift Current, and advising that anyone who could have ...

A bout of measles sends the immune system into shock, demolishing critical cells that help our bodies respond to threats.

Being immunocompromised or in close contact with an infected person puts vaccinated people at a higher risk of infection, ...

The growing measles outbreak in the U.S. has reached 301 confirmed cases, surpassing the number of cases in 2024. The CDC ...