How continent is navigating decades-old obstacles to build robust vaccine industry ANALYSIS | The African Union has embarked ...

Measles is so infectious that when under-vaccinated individuals mingle, they'll always be at risk. That's why public health officials are stressing the importance of high vaccination rates amid ...

A review and meta-analysis finds mass biannual azithromycin distribution reduced mortality by 15% in children ages 1 to 5 in ...

The Paramyxoviridae family also includes the Nipah virus which has caused outbreaks in South East Africa and Southeast Asia. It can also cause a fatal swelling of the brain after a fever, headache, ...

How ironic if not surprising that on this day, March 24, as the world is marking World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the desperate ...

As the UK retreats from the world as a result of cuts to its aid budget, China and Russia will move in to fill the gap ...

Senior officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are facing fallout from revelations that they used a commercial messaging app to discuss secret military plans for Yemen and inadvertently ...

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

Although measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, it still rages on in many parts of the world. With decreasing vaccination rates across the US, experts say, imported cases can ...

Public health officials say they expect the measles outbreak to last for at least several more months and the case number is ...