When Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy answered questions during the first cabinet meeting of the ...

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have ...

In the U.S., most states now are below the 95% vaccination threshold for kindergartners — the level needed to protect ...

New measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky with the one common factor being a lack of measles ...

Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases ...

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

The cases identified in New Jersey are separate from a serious measles outbreak that has swept through West Texas in the last ...

Here’s what to know about the current measles outbreak, how common the measles is in the U.S., how it spreads and what the symptoms and treatment are.

More measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas.

Vaccines are the most effective tools to combat measles. Breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated — are extremely ...

Natalya Maisheva/Getty Images In the decade before the measles vaccine, the CDC estimates 3 to 4 million people were infected and 400 to 400 people died from the virus every year in the United States.

In New Jersey, a measles patient who recently traveled abroad had close contact with two other people who were later ...