The death of dozens of children from a fully preventable disease is a tragic paradox of modern medicine. In the spring of 2026, public health officials are scrambling to contain a massive global ...

Measles in adults and children in the last few months in California have brought home the fact that the extremely contagious virus is in our backyard. Once under control and even eradicated, measles ...

New research reveals how measles infection disrupts immune memory and increases vulnerability to other infections, reinforcing why high vaccination coverage remains critical to preventing outbreaks ...

Measles has returned to the United States with a speed and scale that public health officials have not seen in decades. As of mid-March 2026, the country had already recorded 1,362 confirmed cases for ...

Pinning down the movement of a microscopic pathogen can be difficult. But Mexican authorities believe that the measles virus probably arrived in the throat or lungs of the third-grader, who was ...

Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three decades, when an epidemic centered on West Texas sickened at least 762 people.

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Measles cases have soared nationwide in the first two months of 2026. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent data, 982 cases of the highly contagious disease have ...

T cells are some of the immune system’s most important fighters. They can stop tumor growth and fight off severe infections. Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have now reported a ...

TESTING AND HOW CONCERNED THEY ARE AT THIS POINT. SACRAMENTO PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE WARNING COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT MEASLES AFTER WASTEWATER TESTING DETECTED THE VIRUS. IF IT’S DETECTABLE, THEN ...