Three children have died in the most recent outbreak of measles. This article reviews the symptoms and treatment of measles.

Measles morbillivirus formerly called the measles virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped, non-segmented RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae. It is the ...

Measles, a highly contagious viral disease preventable by vaccination, is resurging due to declining immunization rates driven by vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. Recent outbreaks in the US and ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are back in Texas and on the ground for the second time this year. The state has become ground zero for one of the worst measles outbreaks the country ...

Measles is caused by a ssRNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family, genus Morbillivirus. It has an incubation period of approximately 10–12 days, and clinical disease begins with ...

State health officials on Tuesday said the number of measles cases in the state linked to a West Texas outbreak has grown to ...

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “tipping point” as the critical point in a situation, process or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place. A tipping ...

KFF data shows that less than half of parents are aware that measles cases are higher than average this year, and only about half of US adults are concerned about the ongoing outbreak. The KFF ...

A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport for several hours while infectious this week, health officials said. Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B between 12:30 ...

“At current state-level vaccination rates, measles may become endemic again,” the authors wrote when they published their research this week in the Journal of the American Medical Associatio ...