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Measles would normally be expected to have a fatality rate of about one to three deaths out of every 1,000 children infected, the CDC says, so the number of deaths this year suggests there may be far ...

Pediatric infectious diseases experts stress the importance of vaccination against measles, one of the most contagious viruses, which is once more spreading in the United States.

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During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the ...

Measles is making a troubling comeback in the U.S., driven by declining vaccination rates and rising vaccine hesitancy.

The toll of the resurgence isn't measured only by deaths, but also includes the stress to hospital systems, the cost of the ...

Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination clinics across the country, including ...

Doctors, researchers and public health experts warn that the measles outbreak, which has grown to more than 600 cases, may ...

U.S. measles cases in six states now exceed 700, and two children and an adult have died. A look at the situation in each ...

Measles is one of the most challenging diseases to control. It requires a sustained uptake of well over 90% of two doses of a ...

To stop the spread of an infectious disease like measles, you don’t have to vaccinate everyone. But you do have to vaccinate many. Just how many? To let you discover for yourself, we simulated an ...