The parents of the unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died from the measles are speaking out — but not in favor of vaccination. In an emotional video interview with the anti-vaccine group Children’s ...

The US has recorded more than 1,100 measles cases so far this year, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a troubling milestone that has many in ...

The U.S. officially eliminated measles in 2000. But that designation may now be at risk. There were more than 2,200 cases of measles in 2025 — about half as many as there were in the previous 25 years ...

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The South Carolina measles outbreak has spread to Clemson University. The state's Department of Public Health informed Clemson staff of a "confirmed case of measles" in an individual associated with ...

South Carolina health officials are warning of "irreversible" neurological damage in children as measles-related hospitalizations climb in the state. Of the 876 confirmed cases in the state’s upstate ...

Growing case numbers suggest that the national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019. By Teddy Rosenbluth and Apoorva Mandavilli The spread of measles in the Southwest ...

For a child who is not vaccinated against measles — one of the world’s most infectious viruses — no classroom, school bus or grocery store is safe. Nine out of 10 unvaccinated people exposed to an ...

In the early 1960s, American childhood was not what it is today. Many children spent hours playing unsupervised in the streets; they rode around in cars without seat belts, then came home to frozen ...

At around 2 a.m., 7-year-old twin brothers arrived at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Both had a fever, a cough, a rash, pink eye, and cold symptoms. The boys sat in one waiting room and then another.

A person with measles passed through the busiest airport in Idaho, shedding one of the world’s most infectious viruses in the state with the country’s lowest measles vaccination rate. Health officials ...

A highly effective vaccine has long kept measles at bay in many parts of the world. But as childhood vaccination rates drop, leaving a growing population vulnerable to the extremely contagious virus, ...