Measles

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission.

The growing measles outbreak in the U.S. has in three months infected 378 people in 18 states — more than the number of total cases in the country last year.Why it matters: The outbreak comes at a time of dropping vaccination rates and declining trust in public health institutions...

America's new top health official said the measles vaccine 'causes deaths every year' and 'all the illnesses measles itself causes' Published Mar 14, 2025 Last updated Mar 15, 2025 7 minute read U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been giving opinions on measles vaccination that have health experts rattled. Photo

Skip to Main Content Health State health officials have said this outbreak is Texas’ largest in nearly 30 years. A sign is seen outside a clinic with the South Plains Public Health District on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, in Brownfield, Texas. AP Photo/Julio Cortez By DEVI SHASTRI, Associated Press February 26, 2025 1 minute to

In early February, Texas health officials reported that measles was spreading among an insular religious community in Gaines County, Texas, where nearly 14 percent of schoolchildren have an exemption (granted in some states for reasons of conscience, including for religious beliefs) from the required childhood vaccinations. The disease has since been detected in a bordering

Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year compared to 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF have warned in what is being called a "wake-up call". There were 127,350 reported infections in the region in 2024, which is the highest number since 1997. It is around a third of last year's

Science & Nature Benchmarks must be established and progress tracked to set a global target and take action...Read MoreRebecka Catt

MedPage Today) -- "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was 7 years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was...