In about 1 in 10,000 who get sick with measles and recover from it, the virus lies dormant in the brain for about a decade.

With measles becoming a growing threat nationwide, federal health officials continue to encourage parents to vaccinate their children to avoid becoming infected by the highly contagious virus.

In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States. In 2025, one of us announced the death of an unvaccinated child from a ...

Measles is still making headlines in 2025, prompting questions about the life-threatening disease and how to prevent it. Here's what to know. The largest measles outbreak so far this year has been ...

Six years ago, two communities in New York – one in Brooklyn and one in Rockland County – were facing the worst measles outbreaks the United States had seen in decades. Measles had been ...

Not even three months into 2025, the United States is approaching the number of measles cases it saw in all of last year: 222 and counting. A growing outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has claimed ...

In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak. By Teddy Rosenbluth In a sweeping interview ...

As a measles outbreak in Texas has grown to nearly 150 cases, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an opinion piece on Fox News on Sunday that parents should ...

Over 200 measles cases and two deaths have been reported across at least eight states in 2025. The measles virus is highly contagious and spreads through the air when an infected person coughs ...