Wyoming is reporting its first measles case in 15 years as the infectious disease continues to spread across the United ...

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 ...

Wisconsin Watch wants to hear from folks who experienced measles outbreaks before vaccines were widely available.

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.

The initial symptoms of measles are similar to those of many other common viral illnesses in the U.S.: fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes. Several days after symptoms begin, characteristic tiny ...

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.

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.