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The pathogenesis of SSPE is unclear, but its cause is certain: Only wild-type measles virus, never the vaccine strain, has been found in all cases of SSPE. Another recent case illustrating that ...
Biostatistics Group, Division of Epidemiology & Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Objective: To test the hypothesis that measles vaccination was involved in the pathogenesis of ...
The country’s measles outbreak has surpassed 1,000 cases for the first time in 30 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed this week. The data, which is based on confirmed ...
With illnesses reported in at least 30 states, experts worry the virus may be here to stay after 25 years of eradication. Measles is highly contagious — easily transmitted through the air ...
Measles infections in the U.S. have topped 1,000 in 2025 as cases continue to crop up in new states. While Texas remains the epicenter battling the largest number of cases, the presence of measles ...
North Dakota has reported its first case of measles in over a decade. This case — the state's first since 2011 — involves an unvaccinated child, who, according to North Dakota Health and Human ...
Health officials are ramping up travel warnings as measles cases topped 1,000 in the U.S. and spread widely in numerous other countries around the globe. New York's measles case tally hit seven ...
Now that measles, which was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has re-emerged in this country, here’s something you may be wondering about: whether you should get a measles vaccine booster.
Public health officials in Washington state are warning residents that a Canadian traveler who was contagious with measles visited several public locations, including the Seattle-Tacoma ...
Measles outbreaks have been reported across the country this year, largely among the unvaccinated. One of the biggest is in West Texas, which borders many of the affected areas of New Mexico ...
“There is no effective treatment for measles,” says Aniruddha Hazra, an infectious disease physician at University of Chicago Medicine. Measles vaccines prevent infection in 97 percent of case ...