Manitoba is grappling with a rise in measles cases, prompting urgent calls from public health officials for vaccination and ...

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

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it has granted three new color additive petitions to expand the ...

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North America has two other ongoing outbreaks, all of which are the same measles strain. One outbreak in Ontario, Canada, has ...

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 ...