Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.
Public health experts said that although it’s true we have measles cases in the U.S. every year, the latest outbreak is ...
Measles cases popping up across the United States, including an outbreak in Texas that has led to the death of a child, are ...
Measles was thought to be eliminated two decades ago. But growing mistrust in vaccines has changed that, and now some people ...
Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...
The number of confirmed measles cases in western Texas grew to 146, and it is possibly spreading to the central part of the ...
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 10.3 million people were infected with measles and 107,500 died.
While there are usually cases and even minor outbreaks reported yearly, the 2025 outbreak is on track to be the largest in ...
Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have ...
“Measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness, which can cause life-threatening illness to anyone who is not protected ...
The child who died in the outbreak is the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
“We have measles outbreaks every year,” he added. Mr. Kennedy has also said in the past that immunizations against measles ...