State health officials on Tuesday said the number of measles cases in the state linked to a West Texas outbreak has grown to 561 since January.

U.S. measles cases in six states now exceed 700, and two children and an adult have died. A look at the situation in each ...

On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles ...

U.S. measles cases topped 700 Friday, and two children and an adult have died. Texas and five other states have active ...

Texas’ outbreak began in late January. State health officials said Friday there were 36 new cases of measles since Tuesday, ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun redeploying staff to respond to the deadly outbreak of measles in ...

The death of a second child has also been linked to the measles outbreak in West Texas. The virus first targets the respiratory tract ... someone has contracted the disease. The rash that ...

Measles may be a classic childhood illness ... respiratory failure so severe that they needed a ventilator. When measles returned to Southern California with the Disneyland outbreak of 2014 ...

Whooping cough is spread through respiratory droplets from an infected person and is mitigated by vaccination, which was first introduced in the 1940s. The modern DTaP vaccine aids in protection ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Gaines County, Texas, to console the families whose young children have died.