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 ...

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Over 1,500 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S. this year, the highest toll since the disease was locally eliminated. Reading time 3 minutes America’s terrible year of measles is far from ...

Falling vaccination rates among U.S. children may make local outbreaks of highly contagious measles cases increasingly common -- and that's bringing parents into clinicians' offices with plenty of ...

Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases, and it can be deadly. More than 100,000 people across the globe died from the disease in 2023, according to world health data. The virus is ...

More than 1,100 measles cases have been reported in the United States this year, and the highly contagious virus has put people at risk while they wait in ERs and doctor’s offices — but also at a ...