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With the first measles case reported in Bexar County earlier this week, some parents are closely monitoring the outbreak.
Measles is highly contagious among those who are unvaccinated; outbreaks can have severe health consequences in children ...
In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...
Which is more contagious, measles or viral misinformation that infects our understanding of how to stay safe? It’s hard to ...
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed a case of measles in a child who was visiting Forsyth and Guilford counties.
Among children with measles, about 1 in every 20 develops pneumonia, the CDC said, and about one in every 1,000 suffers swelling of the brain called encephalitis — which can lead to convulsions ...
Measles, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, is resurging in 2025, with over 1,100 cases reported across 17 states. This outbreak is fueled by falling vaccination rates, relaxed exemption ...
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a deadly outbreak in Seminole, setting off a battle between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.
Measles is one of those illnesses we’ve all heard about, but many of us think it’s a thing of the past. For example, in the US measles was thought to have been eliminated in 2000 until it made ...
All three hospital systems say lessons learned from COVID-19 place them in a better position to respond to another threat, like measles. Wohl shared the focus is on staying ahead of the next outbreak.
The Chicago area now has two reported measles cases: One in a suburban Chicago adult, and the other in a Chicago resident who recently passed through O'Hare.
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