Measles, a highly contagious disease, can spread like wildfire, with one person able to infect up to 18 others. However, it's ...

Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.

infectious disease and public health experts and vaccine advocates say a confluence of factors could cause renewed, deadly epidemics of measles, whooping cough, and meningitis, or even polio.

Infectious disease and public health experts and vaccine advocates say a confluence of factors could cause renewed, deadly ...

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The Department of Health, during the early part of the year, recorded increasing cases of measles and rubella in the country.

In it, he suggested the measles vaccine itself may have caused the outbreak. He claimed that the vaccine might have “failed to produce antibodies” in vaccinated mothers sufficient to provide ...

The virus that causes measles infects the respiratory tract and then spreads throughout the body. Measles manifests with symptoms such as high fever, a runny nose, cough, red and watery eyes ...

Serious health complications are possible, especially in children younger than 5, such as pneumonia — the most common cause of death from measles in young children — and swelling of the brain ...