The first dose of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is given when children are 12 to 15 months old. Some doctors and parents ...

Many of us remember measles before we had a vaccine. We either had it ourselves or had siblings and friends who contracted ...

As a Texas measles outbreak captures national attention, health officials are watching for cases in South Carolina and ...

Measles is so infectious that when under-vaccinated individuals mingle, they'll always be at risk. That's why public health ...

Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start ...

The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to increased vaccine hesitancy. Measles may cause serious psychiatric complications with few treatments. Outbreaks of measles in Texas and New Mexico ...

The CDC recommends two doses of MMR vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella, first at ages 12 to 15 months and the second shot at ages 4 to 6 years before entering school.

First introduced in 1963, the measles vaccine essentially trains the immune system to recognize and fight measles by exposing it to a weakened version of the virus. Before the vaccine was widely ...

who serves as lead medical consultant for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, dismissed Kennedy's assertions. “I’m not aware of any documented deaths related to measles vaccines ...