A child’s death from a measles outbreak in West Texas has raised concerns about vaccination rates and the resurgence of preventable diseases.
If you've been vaccinated against measles, do you need a booster? What about other routine childhood vaccinations?
The number of measles cases in Gaines County, the epicenter of the outbreak, has grown to 137, 30 more than the cases ...
Rates of nearly all required childhood vaccinations have fallen in Lancaster County since the 2018-2019 school year, ...
I am 90 years old. About 20 years ago, I had prostate cancer and went through 43 weeks of radiation. My PSA level in the past ...
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week he would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella ...
The CDC states that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is both safe (it doesn’t cause autism, despite what some ...
Health experts have raised concerns about a new CDC advisory that recommends vitamin A supplements as a therapy for measles.
In the U.S., the MMR vaccine is given to children in two doses. The first dose, given between 12 months to 15 months of age, is 93% effective in preventing measles infection — a second dose between ...
On Long Island, rates for the combined 7-vaccine series remain alarmingly low among children between 24 and 35 months old.
Three cases of the highly transmissible infection have been detected at Penn State University, prompting the alert.
What are measles parties? Dr. Ron Cook, chief health officer at Texas Tech University Health Center Sciences said in a virtual press conference Friday measles parties as of late have “mostly been ...