CDC staff received an email this week telling them to avoid using more than a dozen terms or words -- including "health ...

Symptoms typically start within 7-14 days of exposure, but also have been known to appear as long as 21 days later. Here's ...

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 ...

An unvaccinated child has died from measles in West Texas, officials said, marking the first fatality from the disease in the ...

Texas officials on Wednesday announced the first measles death in the state's ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious ...

Measles can cause seizures, blindness and death, and children under the age of 5 are particularly vulnerable to complications ...

One of the first written accounts of measles was published by a Persian doctor in the 9th century, according to the CDC. In 1912, measles was named a nationally notifiable disease in the United States ...

A west Texas outbreak of the measles virus has reached over 100 cases, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), with the majority of cases being unvaccinated children.

More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened by measles. The outbreak started in a county with a vaccination rate around 80%.

Lubbock city spokesperson Lauren Adams confirmed the death Wednesday. It wasn't clear the age of the patient, who died ...

The outbreak is primarily affecting West Texas, but officials in San Antonio, New Braunfels and San Marcos are monitoring ...