The death, reported on Wednesday, was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade. Government data ...

Public health experts said that although it’s true we have measles cases in the U.S. every year, the latest outbreak is ...

The child who died in the outbreak is the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

King County has recorded Washington state's first measles case of the year. Measles is extremely contagious for those who ...

Kennedy Jr. said ending the measles outbreak in Texas is a top priority for him and listed the steps his agency had taken to ...

Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an unvaccinated child as "not unusual" ...

As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool.

More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates — even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services, his policies on chronic disease, ...

There is a conspicuous lack of encouragement from Kennedy for people in Texas, New Mexico, or elsewhere around the country to get the MMR vaccine.

The measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 146 cases with most infections reported among children and teenagers, according to new data released Friday.