Now to the southern Pacific island nation of Samoa, where the government has shut down for two days to deal with a measles outbreak that has killed at least 60 people, most of them children. The ...

The Pacific island nation of Samoa will shut down government services for two days so that civil servants can focus on a nationwide immunization drive as the country struggles to end a measles ...

Measles infections continued to climb steeply in Samoa Thursday as a mass vaccination programme fails to reach the infants most vulnerable to the deadly epidemic. The government said the number of ...

Samoa has arrested an anti-vaccination campaigner as the country continues to battle a deadly measles outbreak. Edwin Tamasese was charged with incitement against a government order after he was ...

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Measles cases in the U.S. have been rare in recent decades, thanks to a strong childhood vaccination program. But a few cases inevitably pop up each year as travelers bring the virus in from other ...

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Cases have been confirmed in 29 states, according to CDC data. The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published ...

HILLSBORO, Texas — U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, will meet with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tuesday in North Texas as the state ...

Measles infections continued to climb steeply in Samoa Thursday as a mass vaccination programme fails to reach the infants most vulnerable to the deadly epidemic. Factfile on measles, a highly ...