Faced with a skeptical religious community that became the center of the outbreak, public health officials say they may have ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, measles, rubella and other infectious diseases that ran rampant in the U.S.

New Jersey residents are at a greater risk for measles now that the state no longer has herd immunity. Public health experts say that measles control depends on herd immunity of 95% vaccination ...

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