The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with the measles vaccine that is lagging behind. The use of other key vaccines in the childhood immunization schedule has decreased too.

Vaccination provides long-lasting 97% protection against measles infection. Most people who have been vaccinated do not need to be vaccinated again.

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As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool.

And measles is back. Before the vaccine was created, millions of Americans were infected each year, hundreds of them died, many of them children, and nearly 50,000 per year were hospitalized. We forget. We forget that polio killed or paralyzed more than ...

Latest data shows significant rise in parents sending kindergarteners to school without the required measles vaccine.

Gaines County in West Texas is at the heart of the ongoing measles outbreak. Non-medical vaccine exemption rates there are high.

"I support the measles vaccine," he said. "I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking either of those vaccines."

experts worry about what vaccine preventable illnesses we could see next. Coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio, and varicella ...