More than 800 people in the U.S. have had measles since the beginning of the year, according to NBC News data. The majority of cases are in West Texas, where an outbreak that shows no signs of abating ...

Amid the outbreak of measles in West Texas, there’s a question of how contagious the disease is — and whether it will spread in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Public health officials have told ...

A team of San Antonio-based biomedical researchers trained a machine learning algorithm to identify more than two dozen ...

After all, drops in measles vaccination rates are what allowed the virus to sneak back into Texas, New Mexico and other parts of the country. And maybe you’ve heard about herd immunity ...

Measles has been considered eliminated in the U.S. since 2000. But as vaccination rates have dipped nationwide, states across the country have seen outbreaks. The virus spreads mostly among ...

recently we’ve seen measles infections once again in Australians who haven’t been overseas. In other words, the virus has been transmitted in the community. So with measles health alerts and ...

Symptoms of measles appear seven to 14 days after exposure and can include a high fever, cough, runny nose, red watery eyes, ...

If the vaccination rates continue to decline, measles virus could become endemic, that is circulating in the population, within a few years. To date, only effective drugs have brought or ...