As Utah schools get back in session, health officials are concerned that the number of measles cases could go up.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is urging countries in the Americas to strengthen immunization activities, ...

Signs of measles include: rash, which usually does not appear until four days after exposure but starts on the face and neck and then moves to limbs; fever; conjunctivitis; respiratory distress; ...

The vaccines are less likely to be tied to vaccine-associated paralytic polio and seeding of new circulating vaccine-derived ...

Students and staff in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City schools who are exposed to measles and do not have proof of vaccination will ...

The program, which has battled tickborne disease since 1906, will now round-up stray livestock for preventive screwworm ...

Liberia's Disease Surveillance Officers (SOs) have issued a hard-hitting ultimatum to the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL), threatening to suspend all surveillance reporting ...

Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.

Dr. Owen L. Kaluwa, WHO Representative to Ethiopia, praised the Ethiopian government for its strong leadership, coordination, ...

The detection suggests someone in North Idaho had measles, a highly contagious virus. Idaho’s last measles outbreak was in ...

The Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) will continue to be offered to all children as they turn 9 months of age, as part of the routine immunisation schedule.

Penn State and WHO researchers have developed a new method to estimate and predict regional measles vaccination coverage levels even when accurate or timely survey data on vaccination is not available ...