CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words -- including "health ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported that measles cases so far this year had jumped to 93 ...

“Measles is a highly contagious respiratory illness, which can cause life-threatening illness to anyone who is not protected ...

The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed an initial measles case on Feb. 14 in an unvaccinated individual, and by Feb.

Yahoo News answers some of the most frequently asked questions about measles amid the Texas and New Mexico outbreaks.

According to the CDC, if you were born after 1957, one dose is considered sufficient to be considered protected from measles.

The first death in an ongoing measles outbreak has been reported in Texas. The Texas Department of State Health Services ...

The measles outbreak in Texas has been steadily growing over the past few weeks, and health officials in Texas announced ...

One of the first written accounts of measles was published by a Persian doctor in the 9th century, according to the CDC. In ...

Measles, one of the world’s most contagious infectious diseases, can cause serious complications – such as blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis, swelling of the brain – and even turn deadly, ...

Representative Kim Schrier, a Washington Congresswoman and former pediatrician, said the measles outbreak in Texas could have been avoided.

An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first death associated with an outbreak in the western part of the state that has infected more than 100 people.