Measles outbreak ends in West Texas, but fight continues as CDC reports 1,375 cases nationwide in 2025Texas has declared the end of its measles outbreak after 762 cases, primarily affecting children, with significant hospitalizations and fat...
21 Aug, 2025, 10.53 AM IST
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...
14 Jun, 2025, 09.49 AM IST
Measles returns to Alabama after 23 years, sparks urgent vaccination efforts amid nationwide surgeAlabama health officials are investigating a possible measles case in Lee County, potentially the state's first in many years. The individu...
09 Jun, 2025, 10.57 AM IST
Measles outbreak in Alberta, over 320 cases reported, most unvaccinatedAlberta is grappling with a significant measles outbreak, reporting 326 cases since March, predominantly affecting young children and conce...
12 May, 2025, 11.26 PM IST
Measles alert in Auckland: Risks, symptoms, and preventionAuckland is on high alert after a new measles case. Health New Zealand issued urgent warnings. The infected person visited public places, i...
12 May, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
USA is hit by one of the world's most contagious disease. 2 children dead, over 600 cases reported. Check measles symptoms, vaccine, treatmentMeasles symptoms, vaccine, treatment related details are here as the disease is rapidly spreading the United States.
07 Apr, 2025, 02.41 AM IST
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...
11 Mar, 2025, 08.10 PM IST
Measles outbreak in Texas: 146 cases reported, one child dead — Are low vaccination rates to blame?Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in nearly 30 years, with 146 confirmed cases and one reported child fatality. The outbre...
28 Feb, 2025, 11.44 PM IST
Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first US fatality in yearsIn Texas, a child has died from measles amidst an outbreak affecting over 130 people, mostly children, with 18 hospitalizations. The US has...
28 Feb, 2025, 07.08 PM IST
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,...
24 Feb, 2025, 06.53 PM IST
Measles outbreak in US: Cases rise to 48 but officials fear real number is over 200A measles outbreak in Texas has infected dozens, with health officials warning the true number could be as high as 300. The virus is spread...
20 Feb, 2025, 12.45 AM IST
UK officials warn low measles immunisation rates could lead to tens of thousands of cases in LondonThe Health Security Agency in Britain said on Friday that measles vaccination rates in parts of London have dropped so low that the capital...
14 Jul, 2023, 04.42 PM IST
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...
24 Nov, 2022, 01.02 PM IST
Risk of measles outbreak high after 22 mn infants missed first vaccine shot amid the pandemicReported measles cases fell by more than 80% last year compared with 2019.
11 Nov, 2021, 06.44 PM IST
MMR vaccine might offer protection against worst COVID-19 complications, scientists sayResearchers said live attenuated vaccines, which are made using weakened strains of a disease-causing pathogen, provide nonspecific protect...
19 Jun, 2020, 06.32 PM IST
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,...
27 Oct, 2017, 03.38 PM IST
New microneedle patch for measles vaccination designedThe underside of the patch is lined with 100 solid, conical microneedles made of polymer, sugar, and vaccine that are a fraction of a milli...
29 Apr, 2015, 02.01 PM IST