Summer travel raises fears that the highly infectious virus will spread. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known to science – more contagious than Ebola, smallpox or COVID-19. Declining vaccination rates over the past few years, plus a recent ...

Discover the devastating history of measles, a highly contagious disease that can kill, and how vaccination can prevent it. Learn more about its evolution and impact.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to suggest getting measles is the best defense against the disease, as a Texas outbreak spreads across the U.S. More than 220 ...

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have dropped since the covid pandemic began.

2. "I was a kid in the 1940s-'50s and had ALL the diseases except polio, scarlet fever, and rheumatic fever. Whooping cough (pertussis) was the very worst — I had it for 6 months — disgusting!

To the editor: Thanks for your reporting and attempt at education (“Immune amnesia: Why even mild measles infections can lead to serious disease later,” April 1).It must help, even if some ...

In essence, measles acts like an infection amplifier, turning up the volume of background disease. This means that in resource-limited areas, the virus will cause higher overall death rates.

As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease, Nick Paumgarten writes.

Texas reports over 120 measles cases, the highest in 30 years. The Week. US Edition. ... Measles: Kennedy’s big disease test. Texas reports over 120 measles cases, the highest in 30 years.

The rate of measles infections in 2024 are more than triple the rate of cases in 2023, with 13 outbreaks across the United States thus far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.