The most powerful public health official in the US is reviled by some medics - but even some of his critics accept that he is ...

The first measles vaccine was licensed in 1963 and became part of the combination measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne. It is preventable through vaccines and has been considered ...

There have been 1,227 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

The Luna County Detention Center, located in the southwest New Mexico city of Deming, houses about 400 incarcerated people ...

San Antonio's Metropolitan Health District previously said it would stop offering low-cost child immunizations July 5. Now they'll be available through summer's end.

"If you look at the number of places, unfortunately, there may be large numbers of people," State Epidemiologist Dr. Zack ...

Interim CDC leadership ran its first all-hands meeting, focusing on "myth-busting" and staffing, STAT reported.

North Carolina has confirmed its first measles case of the year, involving a child who recently traveled from a country with ongoing outbreaks. The state said the child visited Forsyth and Guilford ...

There were no new measles outbreak cases to report in Texas in the last week, and the number of counties on the Texas active ...

In North Dakota, however, the state’s 34 cases give it the highest rate in the nation, followed by New Mexico and Texas, according to the North Dakota Public Health Association, a nonprofit health ...