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Foods contaminated with the bacteria can make people sick. Symptoms can be mild and include fever, muscle aches, nausea, ...

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 ...

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

The measles outbreak that originated in Texas is now the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease ...

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 ...