Canada has lost its measles elimination status nearly three decades after it achieved the distinction, under circumstances ...

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Researchers detected a rapid rise in early measles vaccination in Texas during the state's record-breaking outbreak this year ...

Cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, are on the rise throughout the country. Midland Health Services (MHS) has ...

Using de-identified electronic health record data from Truveta Data, researchers analyzed vaccination patterns among nearly 83,000 Texas children under two years old. The analysis showed that early ...

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People who were in Terminals A and B on Sunday between 8:50 a.m. and 4 p.m. could have been exposed to the highly contagious virus, health officials say.

More than 1,600 cases of the highly contagious disease have been confirmed across 41 states this year, the CDC says.

According to the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), part of the wider World Health Organization, Canada’s loss of its ...

Canada is no longer measles-free, health authorities have declared, after 5,000 cases were recorded in a year.

Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North ...

Measles elimination status means a country has not experienced an uncontrollable spread of the virus for at least one year.