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...
09 Sep, 2026, 12.13 PM IST
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...
25 Aug, 2026, 08.57 PM IST
The Covid connection behind rising measles cases across the USA recent Johns Hopkins study reveals a concerning decline in childhood measles vaccination rates across numerous U.S. counties post-COVID-1...
04 Jun, 2025, 10.15 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
Measles Outbreak in US: Texas reports first death in a decade as unvaccinated child diesA child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the Mennonite comm...
27 Feb, 2025, 09.51 AM IST
Why has measles returned to UK? Pandemic spreads, children hit hard. Know in detailMeasles breakout has been reported from different parts of England. Low vaccine coverage is reportedly the reason for this pandemic with re...
16 May, 2024, 07.08 PM IST
Nearly 12 pc of India's eligible children received no dose of measles vaccine, study findsResearchers from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi investigated previously overlooked crit...
09 May, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
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...
09 May, 2024, 01.46 PM IST
Reports claiming 11 lakh children missed first measles vaccine in 2022 'inaccurate': Health ministryHealth Ministry has denied reports claiming that an estimated 11 lakh children in India missed their first measles vaccine dose in 2022. Th...
18 Nov, 2023, 03.18 PM 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
Red spots, red flags: Experts' warnings come true as missing vaccinations lead to measles outbreakFrom the time countries scrambled to protect their population — first through lockdowns and isolation and then through unprecedented, large...
03 Dec, 2022, 11.17 PM IST
Greater efforts needed to get routine immunization back to pre-COVID-19 times: WHO"Commendably the Region has administered 3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to date, since January 2021 when the first dose of vaccine wa...
16 Jul, 2022, 12.48 PM IST
Poor coverage of measles vaccine holding back India’s full immunisationThe poor coverage of measles vaccination and later doses of basic vaccines like those for polio, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) ar...
30 Aug, 2020, 10.34 AM 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
India, Indonesia far behind in measles vaccination: WHOTogether they account for 91 per cent of unvaccinated children in the region, with India alone accounting for 67 per cent of the children m...
07 Sep, 2017, 03.51 PM IST
India reported 18,668 cases of measles in 2012WHO and other some scientific communities have blamed the anti-vaccine movement for the spiralling of measles cases in the US and EU.
03 Feb, 2015, 10.19 PM IST
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
22 Jul, 2014, 07.20 PM IST