They began to collect throat swabs from patients. They took a sample from the mouth of 11-year-old schoolboy David Edmonston ...

MONDAY, Feb. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Lea County, New Mexico, is now reporting an outbreak of measles, according to the ...

Overall, unvaccinated children are at the greatest risk for measles, according to the CDC. The CDC currently recommends two ...

Texas’ largest outbreak of measles in 30 years has reached 90 cases, the Texas Department of State Health Services said ...

The last major outbreak of measles in the U.S. occurred six years ... according to the CDC. In the 2023–2024 school year, more than three-quarters of states had kindergartener MMR (measles ...

Measles, one of the world’s most contagious infectious diseases, can cause serious complications – such as blindness, ...

Wisconsin has not reported a measles case since April 2024, though vaccination rates for the disease are lagging.

Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible ...

You can contract measles simply by being in the same room with someone who has it, even after they leave,” Dr. Griffin said.

Health officials in two US states are tracking measles outbreaks as cases rise to nearly 100 people. The Texas Department of ...

This is the tip of the iceberg,” said Rekha Lakshmanan, chief strategy officer for The Immunization Partnership in Houston, a ...

In New Mexico, officials said nine people had become sick in Lea County, along the state's eastern border with Texas. Measles ...