It comes as state health officials said the measles case count has increased to at least 158 in the West Texas outbreak. One child died.

Ask your parents or a caregiver if they have records from when you were a child. Call your past health-care providers. Some ...

Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.

If you've already been vaccinated for measles, do you need to get a booster now that it's spreading in the US?

Changing attitudes have had an impact: Vaccination rates among children born in 2020 and 2021 declined by between 1.3 and 7.8 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. managed to clear the lowest bar imaginable when he acknowledged in a Fox News op-ed over the weekend ...

The Trump administration is at risk of its first major failure as the measles outbreak spreads. Donald G. McNeil Jr., a ...

Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died. The virus is ...

When the US introduced the measles vaccine in 1963, we were experiencing hundreds of thousands of cases and about 500 deaths ...

"Measles is really the most contagious illness that we know of," one expert said, which is why vaccinations are so important.

The United States is seeing a large measles outbreak, with nearly 150 cases reported since late January, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Last week, the nation saw its first ...

Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who ...