“Some people who received the old, inactivated measles vaccine between 1963 and 1967 may benefit from a booster with the live MMR vaccine,” advised Dr. Elizabeth Hammershaimb, an infectious-disease ...

A measles case has been reported in an adult in southern Illinois, joining several other nearby states, including Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota and Ohio. The outbreak in western Texas ...

Measles may seem like a disease of the past. Indeed, the highly contagious virus was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000 after a full year had passed without any infections. But times ...

Measles cases in the United States hit a sobering milestone this week. As of Wednesday, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last updated its weekly count, 1,288 cases have been ...