Texas researchers develop groundbreaking wastewater surveillance method that detects viruses before they spread, potentially ...

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected ...

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One school district is requiring unvaxxed schoolchildren exposed to the measles virus to quarantine for 21 days. Meanwhile, for only the second time in 30 years, the number of measles cases nationwide ...

Texas' measles outbreak that began in Gaines County in January has now expanded to 709 cases, officials said on May 9.

No cases have been reported in Oregon this year. But officials warn that the falling rate of vaccinations could yield ...

Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since ...

I have the measles vaccine. Should I still be concerned about outbreaks? - Over 1,000 cases of the deadly virus have taken ...

Texas still accounts for the vast majority of cases in the U.S., with 709 confirmed as of Friday in an outbreak that also ...

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines “tipping point” as the critical point in a situation, process or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place. A tipping ...