HealthDay News — Between 2000 and 2024, global measles deaths fell by 88%, saving an estimated 58 million lives, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. But now the virus is ...

OPINION: Moves by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threaten to further undermine trust in vaccines.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Carlos del Rio about the spiking number of measles cases in South Carolina and about the public health challenges posed by the outbreak.

South Carolina is the latest state to see a serious measles outbreak, as the U.S. has registered its highest number of cases ...

A backlash against pandemic-era restrictions, online misinformation, and a lack of resources for healthcare have contributed ...

Vaccines are particularly exciting because they can train the immune system to seek out and destroy these microscopic cancer ...

With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year. A surge in measles cases has cost Canada its official measles-free ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials are warning that there may have been a possible measles exposure at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health says an ...

Canada’s loss of its measles elimination status is raising alarms about how close the United States may be to the same fate, as cases surge and vaccination rates slip across the Americas. The United ...

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday. It’s the first country in the Americas to do so since the pandemic, and it could serve as a warning ...

TORONTO — In 1998, after once being a hot spot for measles in the Americas, Canada eliminated the highly contagious virus. By 2000, measles was “so rare” in the country that many practicing doctors ...

An outbreak of measles at the Arizona-Utah border has grown to 123 cases and multiple people have been hospitalized, updated data shows. As of Oct. 23, an outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory ...