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Measles outbreaks, immunity gaps among children and adolescents concerning: WHOThe WHO South-East Asia Region has the highest childhood immunisation coverage globally, reaching 94 percent for DTP3 vaccine. Experts high...
School Assembly News Headlines, September 10, 2026: Top national, international, business, sports updates and thought of the dayMaharashtra is on track to become India's first tokenised state, enhancing the ease of access to land records. Meanwhile, the Gujarat State...
Bangladesh fights world's worst measles outbreak as vaccination gaps fuel spreadBangladesh is battling what the US CDC lists as the world’s largest measles outbreak, with 999 suspected and confirmed measles-related deat...
Pennsylvania's MMR vaccination rate fell below 95%. Now two residents have died from measlesPennsylvania is facing its first measles fatalities in thirty-five years due to a rise in cases statewide, primarily affecting unvaccinated...
Trump takes aim at childhood vaccine schedule, orders revampPresident Donald Trump announced an executive order for revised childhood vaccine recommendations. This order promotes spacing out vaccines...
Measles outbreak in USA: Top U.S. health expert sends chilling warning. All you need to knowAn outbreak in South Carolina in the hundreds has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas’ 2025 outbreak, and there is also one on the U...
Measles cases hit 33-year high in U.S.: How did it spread? Symptoms and risks explainedMeasles outbreak: In the first seven months of 2025, health officials have confirmed 1,288 measles cases nationwide, the highest count reco...
Is US measles elimination status in danger as cases surge to record high in 2025?The United States is witnessing a record surge in measles cases in 2025. Confirmed cases have crossed 1,200, exceeding the 2019 record. A m...
Alberta has become the second Canadian province, after Ontario, to cross more than 1,000 confirmed measles cases in 2025Alberta faces a measles surge, with over 1,000 cases reported. Congenital infections are also confirmed. Experts warn of a summer spike due...
Canada measles crisis: Alberta in panic over worst outbreak in 45 years, memories of pre-vaccine times backAlberta is facing a severe measles outbreak, with 868 confirmed cases since March 2025, levels unseen since 1979. Northern Alberta communit...
Shakira's concert sparks measles outbreak scare: Check a list of most-affected US states, symptoms and vaccineA measles outbreak, the worst in over two decades, is sweeping the US, with Texas as the epicenter. Over 1,000 cases have been confirmed ac...
North America's measles crisis deepens as outbreaks surge in Canada, MexicoCanada and Mexico are battling significant measles outbreaks amid a broader resurgence across North America. Canada has reported over 730 c...
Second child died from measles-related causes in West Texas, where cases are nearing 500A second unvaccinated child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, as the outbreak spreads to neighboring states and Mexico...
Eliminated 25 years ago, this highly contagious viral illness is on the rise in US: Check its symptomsMeasles outbreak in US: A measles outbreak in West Texas and a neighboring county in New Mexico has led to 222 cases and two deaths, mainly...
Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico: Nearly 100 cases reported — How declining immunisation rates are to blameNearly 100 cases of measles have been reported across Texas and New Mexico. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000,...
Worrying vaccination gaps come to notice after post-Covid measles spurt forces a data relookA relook at the survey data was necessitated by instances of repeated measles outbreaks after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report by (by Rema...
India bags prestigious award for efforts to combat measles, rubellaIndia has been honored with the Measles and Rubella Champion Award for its relentless efforts to combat these infectious diseases. The awar...
Record number of children miss measles vaccine: Global reportWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted the irony in the fact that while vaccines against Covid were developed and deployed in record ti...
Global measles deaths drop 84% since 2000, but the disease still kills 90,000 every yearIn 2016, global deaths from measles dropped over 80% to an estimated 90,000 people from more than 550,000 deaths in 2000, according to WHO,...
Working towards eliminating measles by 2020: Health Minister Harsh VardhanGovernment is working towards eliminating measles by 2020 and two doses of measles vaccine have been introduced in the UIP