With more than 300 measles cases across the country and newly-announced exposures around Washington, D.C., a local ...

We interpret these findings as the presence of measles-virus antigen in the infected cells, allowing us to make a positive laboratory diagnosis of measles infection. The remaining 4 patients did ...

A bit of a panic today after the Bartlesville Public School district reported a measles diagnosis, only for the Oklahoma State Department of Health to verify that it was a false alarm ...

Vitamin A supplementation is great for people who are vitamin A deficient, and it’s a reasonable thing to do just for the two doses at the time of measles diagnosis, because we think that there ...

Before the MMR vaccine was available, nearly everyone was infected with measles, mumps and rubella during childhood, according to the CDC. Those with a confirmed laboratory diagnosis of measles ...

They add that physicians should consider measles a possible diagnosis in anyone with a temperature above 101 degrees Fahrenheit and/or a rash or cough who has traveled internationally or ...

It's a degenerative neurological condition that typically develops seven to 10 years after a measles infection. It is almost ...

Walensky former director of CDC; Rader is scientific director of the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brownstein is the chief innovation officer of ...

“Any measles diagnosis is a concern, and we are watching every case closely,” said Dr. Miranda Durham, NMDOH Chief Medical Officer. “We are heartened by the number of New Mexicans getting ...

Hospitals watch as children fill the wards.

Hospitals watch as children fill the wards. The diagnosis, numbering in the hundreds, would be the same: the dreaded measles. In what could be a scene from a century past is now the grim ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is ... Cvijanovich was part of the hospital team that confirmed the diagnosis. "The problem is that there is no treatment for it," she says.