Explainer: Confirmation of a measles case in Auckland has put health authorities on high alert in case of another deadly outbreak. Measles is highly contagious - up to 90 percent of non-immune people ...

The Sedgwick County case also means the area is considered to be experiencing a measles outbreak. With the outbreak ...

Confirmed U.S. measles cases broke 1,000 in the second week of May, surpassing last year's total by nearly four times.

My adult son’s birth mother had rubella during her pregnancy. Thanks to widespread vaccinations, there hasn’t been a major outbreak of the virus in the United States since the mid-1960s.

Many vaccines work by using a small amount of an attenuated (weakened) form of a virus, or in the case of the MMR vaccine, attenuated forms of the viruses that cause measles, mumps and rubella.

The measles outbreak centered in northwest Texas appeared to slow on Friday, as health officials reported just seven new ...

A nurse double-gloves before handling and preparing doses of the measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine at a pop-up clinic at the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Administration Building in ...