Ever watched the movie Contagion? Produced in 2011, this thriller tells the story of how a virus, brought to the U.S. by a ...

A child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a Texas measles outbreak during Trump’s first Cabinet ...

Some people think of measles as just a little rash and fever that clear up in a few days. But measles can cause serious ...

The death of the unvaccinated school-aged child marks the first fatality from measles in the United States in 10 years.

A child who tested positive for measles died in West Texas, the state health department said, marking the first death in an ...

A case of measles has popped up in Kentucky, according to health officials. The Kentucky Department for Public Health and ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people ...

U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird ...

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Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...