Measles was one of the deadliest infectious diseases for children prior to 1915. But in just two decades from 1915 in the UK, ...

AstraDx will receive $3 million to develop a test that detects and identifies pathogens and analyzes antimicrobial susceptibility in whole blood drawn from newborns.

Should vaccination rates drop across the board, one of the first diseases to be resurrected would almost certainly be measles ...

Trump’s nominee for health secretary faced a group of bipartisan senators during the first day of his confirmation hearing ...

Then if you encounter the actual pathogen later in life ... Before the vaccine became available in the 1960s, measles was very common in childhood. About 48,000 Americans were hospitalized ...

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — Two Snohomish County residents were exposed to measles following a confirmed case at SEA Airport earlier this month. The two people who were exposed are being monitored ...

Grand Erie Public Health (GEPH) announced another “probable” case of measles — the third diagnosis in its communities this month. The latest case of the highly contagious virus is linked to one the ...

Public health units in two Ontario communities in the southwestern portion of the province issued warnings over the weekend over potential measles contaminations. The Southwestern Public Health ...

The MMR vaccine is a powerful tool to prevent three highly contagious viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). Thanks to the MMR vaccine, introduced in 1963, these serious ...