The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles ...

“Measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness, which can cause life-threatening illness to anyone who is not protected ...

Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases ...

A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the ...

How does Measles spread? The virus lives in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person. It can spread in the air when an ...

The cases identified in New Jersey are separate from a serious measles outbreak that has swept through West Texas in the last ...

Here’s what to know about the current measles outbreak, how common the measles is in the U.S., how it spreads and what the symptoms and treatment are.

In the decade before a vaccine for the disease became available in 1963, measles killed an estimated 400 to 500 people in the United States each year and caused an estimated 48,000 ...

Measles was eradicated in the United States around the turn of the millennium,' Dr. Linda Yancey, an infectious disease specialist with Memorial Hermann, told KHOU 11. 'But, because it is so ...

As a West Texas county is dealing with a measles outbreak ... Nationwide, at least 10 states have seen vaccination rates fall, jeopardizing the country's herd immunity from widespread outbreaks.

The New Mexico Department of Health is warning residents of possible measles exposure at several locations. There have been 24 confirmed cases of measles in neighboring Texas. Measles is a highly ...