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 ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

Lesions usually resolve spontaneously, ... oral cimetidine and intralesional Candida antigen. ... The varicella vaccine is now available in combination with the measles–mumps–rubella vaccine.

Related video above: Infectious disease expert weighs in on measles and flu vaccine trends. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.

FILE - Health department staff members enter the Andrews County Health Department measles clinic carrying doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Andrews, Texas ...

U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance.

The agency recommends that all international travelers, including infants 6 to 11 months old, get the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine if they do not have proof of immunity, because it ...

I remember having measles when I was in the second grade but have a vague memory of my parents calling it German measles, which I believe is rubella. ... immunity to measles, mumps and rubella.

These enanthem lesions emerge approximately 2 days before ... (RT-PCR) testing for measles RNA—performed on urine, blood, oral fluid, or nasopharyngeal samples ... 12 months, pregnant patients, and ...