The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday upheld the role of vaccines in offering protection against ...

A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with ...

Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years, primarily affecting the South Plains region. A child has died ...

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles ...

The People’s Voice cited South Plains Public Health District vaccination clinics held Feb. 6 and 7 in Gaines County. On Feb. 5, the Texas state health department confirmed Gaines had six cases of ...

But startling research about the virus unfortunately tells a new and very different story, recasting what was previously ...

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

A child who was hospitalized with measles in Texas has died, state health officials said this week. It marks the first death ...

Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...

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

Dr. Hal Scofield is a physician-scientist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and he also serves as associate chief ...

Measles is a highly contagious, infectious disease that can spread easily among people who have not been vaccinated.