A sizable chunk of New Mexico adults aren't included in the state Health Department's measles vaccination data.

After Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, Kentucky has not joined the list of US states to declare a measles outbreak, which as ...

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Rubella is a contagious viral infection best known by its distinctive red rash, according to Mayo Clinic. According to Nandi ...

Texas health officials have confirmed Bexar County's first measles case of the year, according to a Tuesday news release from ...

I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out ...

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...