Two people who got measles live in Arapahoe County in the Denver metro, where the vaccination rate dropped 3.5 percentage ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) entire vaccine board even as childhood vaccination ...

Of the 2,066 counties the study looked at, 78% saw a decline in MMR vaccination rates. But rates can vary substantially ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes ...

New research shows measles vaccination rates for children fell in almost 80 percent of counties across the country after the COVID-19 pandemic.  A Johns Hopkins University study tracked ...

Gardner says that Hawaii stood out to her in the study because it experienced a significant drop in measles vaccine coverage; ...

Dr. James Hildreth, an epidemiologist and head of Meharry Medical College, said he is 'baffled' over RFK Jr.'s changes to CDC vaccine advisory panel.

Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data — including in states that are ...

Measles poses a significant threat due to declining vaccination rates, risking outbreaks and potential public health crises if not addressed.

Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.