Gaines County is a vast, flat expanse far in the west of Texas: more than 1,500 square miles of sparsely populated farmland.

The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in Texas has increased to 159 -- an increase of 13 cases in the past ...

A Miami high schooler came down with measles, a doctor said Tuesday. It's the first known case of measles in Florida.

Here’s what to know about the current measles outbreak, how common the measles is in the U.S., how it spreads and what the ...

Measles is highly contagious and can spread from one person to nine out of 10 people close to them, according to the CDC, ...

The reason that we don’t get hundreds of cases like we did way in the past, before vaccination, is because of vaccination.” ...

The measles vaccine—which is technically the measles, mumps, and rubella or MMR vaccine—is usually administered during ...

Pediatricians and public health experts said they’ve seen a surge in requests for “bonus” doses of measles immunization ...

Texas and eight other states have reported cases of measles. Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Measles is a disease that should be a relic of the past with vaccination. But now a child is dead from a disease that is entirely preventable.

Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous as ...