Oregon has a vaccination problem that isn’t going away. More Oregon parents are having their children opt out of required school vaccinations, pushing exemption rates to record highs and raising ...

The reason we don’t see thousands of children dying from measles, whooping cough and other diseases is because vaccines work.

In Shasta County, the measles vaccination rate is just below the 95% threshold for community-level protection, but in pockets of the community the rates are lower and vary widely, according to state ...

As the US confronted a major resurgence of measles last year, poison control centers reported a sharp spike in calls ...

Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 2,000 for the second year in a row, according to data updated Friday from ...

The Merced County Department of Public Health said Friday that the county has detected the measles virus in local wastewater ...

The number of U.S. measles cases surpassed the 2,000 mark this week for the second time in two years, federal data shows.

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The rapid response executed in Shasta County offers a playbook for public health officers who are struggling to keep measles from spreading.

Romania’s children under 5 are experiencing the worst of Europe’s measles outbreaks. Are new policies sufficient to encourage ...

Measles is highly contagious, spreading through the air when a person breathes, sneezes or coughs, according to the Virginia ...

Politicizing healthcare — from vaccines to research and safety net funding — has led to some dangerous changes in public health in this country. Among them is the surge in measles and whooping cough ...