Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

This is not usual,” one doctor said. "Any death of a child is one death too many, especially when it comes to vaccine preventable illnesses,” said another. Meanwhile, as cases crop up in Kentucky and ...

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Labor Department added ovarian, uterine, cervical, and breast cancer coverage for wildland firefighters. It’s unclear whether the new protections ...

A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with ...

There is a conspicuous lack of encouragement from Kennedy for people in Texas, New Mexico, or elsewhere around the country to get the MMR vaccine.

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles ...

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BY: JOSEPH DEBELL / OPINION EDITOR Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is not just a risk to public health — it’s a consequence of Robert F.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must lead on vaccination efforts, not continue to sow doubt about ...

The results of this still small but growing rejection of medical science is undeniable: Measles outbreaks, generally limited ...

Troubling signs are already emerging that Kennedy, notorious for his vaccine misinformation, might influence the Centers for ...