Measles

According to the Israeli Health Ministry, more than 4,300 people were infected with measles between July 2018 and July 2019. Is another surge coming this month?

The study comes as 1,215 people have been diagnosed with measles due to an outbreak in the U.S.

Researchers developed a model to forecast measles rates in the state.

Vaccines protect children from infection, but also makes them less likely to spread diseases to vulnerable people.

The increase in measles cases is due to fewer people being vaccinated against the deadly disease, which was, at one time, declared eliminated.

The El Al staff member fell ill on a flight in March and died five months later.

She is for medical exemptions, and has a reason why.

Health officials across five U.S. states warned people infected with measles that they could be prevented from traveling on planes.

Anti-vax and vaccine hesitant communities have launched powerful narrative appeals to counter scientific fact—and it doesn't take much for them to put us all at risk.

The anti-vaccine lobby has only grown more powerful as measles spreads across the U.S. Unless congressional action is taken, other vaccine-preventable diseases are likely to rise.

If we really want to make America great again, social responsibility is the place to begin.

764 cases of measles have been reported across the country since January 1.

Our ancestors were subjected to full-strength, undiluted, CFC-free, pure-organic, additive-free natural selection. The biggest recipients were young children, for which evolution had the greatest appetite of all.

Anti-vax parents are undermining the public good, hurting other people and also costing the economy millions of dollars.

The Freewinds vessel has left St. Lucia after several days being held in quarantine.

National Chief Medical Officer Merlene Fredericks-James said the risk of an outbreak was too great to allow staff or guests to disembark.

Scientists have so far struggled to find ways of killing the bacteria which cause measles and the flu in the air before they enter our bodies.

"I worry about the potential student who maybe was unable to be vaccinated due to an underlying medical problem, such as people with immune deficiencies."

Children make up most of the 110,000 people estimated to have died from the virus in 2017, according to the U.N. body.

This year, there have been 667 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S.

"A Googler who was in Charleston 1295 [a Google office] on Thursday, April 4, has been diagnosed with measles," Google in-house doctor David Kaye said, noting that this "is just a precaution."

So far this year, 387 cases of the disease have been reported across the country.

The executive of Rockland County, New York, declared a state of emergency that prohibits anyone who is unvaccinated and under 18 from being in public places.

The parents of children killed by illnesses related to vaccines described how anti-vaxxers would share news of the deaths and send the families taunting messages on social media platforms. One mother said she believes the attacks are designed to keep parents from becoming pro-vaccine campaigners. 

Dr. Albert Karam of Texas told Newsweek that banning unvaccinated patients from his office was an act of duty to the vulnerable children he treats.

Measles cases have been confirmed in 12 states.

The bill, if passed into law, would allow minors over 14 in New York to receive vaccinations without parental approval.

Newsweek spokes to science writer and pro-vaccine advocate David Robert Grimes, who has received the John Maddox Prize for communicating science in the face of hostility.

"I think the lesson is the diseases that we think we have vanquished lay in wait for us."

"My position is the same that it's always been," GOP Senator Rand Paul told Newsweek. "I'm both for vaccines and freedom. I think you can have both."