In 2000, 287 years later, measles was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization due to the success of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. Just 25 years later we have an outbreak of measles in this country directly related to rampant misinformation and a decrease in vaccination rates.

The surgeon general said vaccines are available for parents who want them and recommended Vitamin A as an option.

The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas. Normally, most U.S.

According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 10.3 million people were infected with measles in 2023.

In a news release, The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the first death from a measles outbreak in West Texas. According to the agency the case was a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” and had been hospitalized in Lubbock.

The World Health Organization’s largest laboratory network tests 500,000 patient samples a year to track measles, rubella and a host of other infectious diseases, doing essential work on a global scale.

In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil,

Dr. Patrick Jackson, a UVA infectious disease expert, warns declining vaccination rates could lead to more outbreaks.

Measles outbreaks across North America are threatening the region's status of having officially eliminated the virus, officials from the Pan-American Health Organization warned, potentially undoing a hard-fought victory to wipe out community transmission.

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in an op-ed that vitamin A could help against measles. Doctors explain why it's no substitute for vaccines.

In 2000, 287 years later, measles was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization due to the success of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. Just 25 years later we have an outbreak of measles in this country directly related to rampant misinformation and a decrease in vaccination rates.

A second measles-related death was reported out of New Mexico this week. Here's where measles cases have been reported in the U.S. this year.