With measles becoming a growing threat nationwide, federal health officials continue to encourage parents to vaccinate their children to avoid becoming infected by the highly contagious virus.

She now covers breaking and trending news for CBS News' HealthWatch. As measles cases rise across the United States, misinformation about the life-threatening infection can put people at risk.

A second school-aged child has died in Texas from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesperson confirmed Sunday. The child's death comes as an outbreak of measles originating in West Texas ...

The next two weeks will determine whether a single measles case in Colorado fizzles out or starts an outbreak. An unvaccinated adult who lives in Pueblo developed measles after visiting a part of ...

The current U.S. measles outbreak follows, in some ways, a classic pattern: The virus first found a foothold where childhood vaccination is low—among Mennonites in Texas, in this case—before ...

Recent Trump administration actions are setting the stage for a measles resurgence, experts fear. By Teddy Rosenbluth As the Trump administration moves to dismantle international public health ...

The Indiana Department of Health Monday evening announced the state's first laboratory-confirmed case of measles of the year. The case stems from an unvaccinated minor in Allen County. State and ...

A second death of a school-aged child has occurred in Texas due to measles in connection to the ongoing outbreak. This was confirmed Sunday by a statement from University Medical Center hospital ...

For a child who is not vaccinated against measles — one of the world’s most infectious viruses — no classroom, school bus or grocery store is safe. Nine out of 10 unvaccinated people exposed ...

A second child with measles in Texas has died, although the exact cause of death is unknown at this time, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS Secretary Robert F.

Over 500 measles cases have been confirmed in Texas. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to imply in recent days that the measles outbreak in western Texas was slowing ...

Local officials are particularly worried about spread of the measles virus into new areas and vulnerable populations, such as urban centers. “I’m worried about exposures in grocery stores ...