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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

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...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the measles outbreak in west Texas is a “call to action,” as he encouraged parents to consider whether to get their children vaccinated. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, said the decision to vaccinate is “personal” but defended the efficacy of...