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.

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, ...

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 announced the death of a school-aged child on Wednesday morning. The child, who ...

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

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.

HHS head and longtime vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the outbreak’s severity while his organization blamed the vaccines themselves.