As measles cases near record levels in isolated areas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging summer camps ...

Health officials have confirmed that a person infected with measles arrived in Miami earlier in June from Boston. The travelers flew into Miami International Airport on JetBlue flight 639, according ...

Health experts clarify that most vaccinated adults don't need additional measles vaccine doses. The CDC has issued special recommendations for infants in outbreak areas to receive an early dose.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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.

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

One of the ACIP members fired by Robert Kennedy Jr. was acclaimed health behavior researcher Noel Brewer, who works at UNC.

Measles is the most contagious disease that we know. It spreads with unbelievable efficiency, in a nonimmune or a partially immune population,” says Dr. Adam Ratner, pediatric infectious disease ...

The directive comes as measles cases so far this year have hit 1,197 infections, which is fewer than 100 cases from surpassing the record 1,274 cases that were confirmed for all of 2019. Related news ...