Meet Mazyouna, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack on her home in Gaza. She lost two of her siblings in the attack and was denied access by Israel to l

A child who wasn't vaccinated has died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since

Texas reported the first measles death Feb. 26, in an unvaccinated school-aged child, related to an ongoing outbreak in

Many readers expressed outrage about the measles outbreak that began in an under-vaccinated community in rural West Texas, as I described in my column this week. The outbreak has infected more than 120 people there and in neighboring New Mexico and already led to the death of one child.

In its latest update, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported 198 cases of measles across West Texas. The number of cases in neighboring New Mexico also tripled in a day to 30, local health officials said.

The interim guidance document was shared with staff Thursday in the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, or NCIRD, and specifically its Influenza Division — but it was worded broadly, referring to CDC staff in general in its body text. It’s not clear how many other CDC divisions received the memo.

US Health Secretary and long-standing anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing criticism for his equivocal response to the raging measles outbreak in West Texas, which as of Tuesday has grown to 159 cases, with 22 hospitalizations and one child death.

Texas is facing the country’s largest measles outbreak ... making them particularly vulnerable during outbreaks. According to the World Health Organization, immunization rates across the globe have declined since the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving millions ...

Amid outbreak, Landon Schott of Mercy Culture Church praised Mercy Culture Preparatory for its dead-last vaccination rate among Texas kindergartners.