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As health officials continue to monitor the measles outbreak, experts are predicting a spread in cases during the summer travel months.

School nurses will meet with lawmakers at the State Capitol to discuss the issues affecting them and children's health. The event is called Day On The Hill. Medical professionals will address the lack ...

No cases have been reported in Oregon this year. But officials warn that the falling rate of vaccinations could yield ...

Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since ...

Linda Miller tells CBS program "60 Minutes" that the Trump administration's DOGE program has an opportunity to save the ...

Three young children in Orange County have tested positive for measles, bringing New York’s total to eight cases amid a ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is steering public health far off course. This diversion becomes more dangerous and difficult to correct each passing week.

In a weekly update, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported an additional 66 measles cases, ...

The CDC’s most recent update reports 1,001 confirmed measles cases across 31 states. Approximately 96 percent of those ...

The V.I. Department of Health mailed nearly 500 letters to parents who received vaccine exemptions for their children Friday, ...

The country’s measles outbreak has surpassed 1,000 cases for the first time in 30 years. The Centers for Disease Control and ...