You are about to create a live-attenuated vaccine, which means that you need to alter a pathogen—in this case a measles virus—so that it will still invade cells in the body and use those cells ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has raised doubts about ...

In other cases, pathogens can dynamically interfere with each other's prevalence at the population-level even in the absence of co-infection or cross-immunity, as demonstrated for measles and ...

Before the first measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960s ... The virus cripples immune defenses, leaving the body vulnerable to other pathogens. Before the pandemic, immunization rates ...

And existing immunity could, for a time, still buffer against an infectious deluge, especially from pathogens that remain quite rare globally. Polio, for instance, would be harder than measles to ...