The ongoing Texas measles outbreak has rapidly grown to the largest the state has seen in decades, spreading through mostly ...

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Officials at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) warn there is a growing measles outbreak involving school-aged children. The report said that 10 cases have been identified in ...

The federal agency that provides healthcare services to veterans stopped sending its patients to certain Central Virginia ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A measles outbreak continues to grow in Texas, as well as New Mexico. A measles outbreak in Texas ...

At least 58 cases have been confirmed. Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable ...

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since an ...

“We are investigating every suspected case, and we encourage sick individuals with symptoms consistent with measles to seek medical care,” Dr. Chad Smelser, deputy state epidemiologist for ...

In this handout from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the skin of a patient after three days of measles infection. (CDC via Getty Images) ...

Health officials are urging Canadians to keep up with their vaccinations amid measles outbreaks in Ontario and Quebec.