The number of measles cases in the U.S. has reached a 33-year record high, years after it was officially eliminated in the ...

There have been 1,277 confirmed cases of measles this year, which has eclipsed 2019 to become the highest annual total since ...

US is seeing a surge in number of measles cases since the disease was declared "eliminated" in 2000. The US is seeing a worst ...

Prolonged immune amnesia after a measles infection could explain why there was a "remarkable decline" in childhood deaths from infectious diseases after the introduction of measles vaccination in ...

Measles could reverse the effects of vaccination against other infectious diseases. Professor Paul Kellam Department of Infectious Disease. It is known that measles weakens the immune system, even ...

Children with measles receive care in a hospital in the Philippines. Credit: Ezra Acayan/Getty. Measles infections in children can wipe out the immune system’s memory of other illnesses such as ...

The number of reported measles cases in the United States has hit 1,288 in the first six months of this year, the most since ...

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next. As the United States grapples with rising ...

The initial symptoms of measles are similar to those of many other common viral illnesses in the U.S.: fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes. ... Measles is a highly preventable disease.

The U.S. achieved this milestone for measles, a viral illness that can lead to splotchy rashes, pneumonia, organ failure and other dangerous complications, in 2000.

We compared these to the number of children who died from all other (non-measles) infectious diseases in the same periods. A boy receives a measles vaccination in Atlanta, Georgia in 1962.

How Measles Leaves Kids Exposed to Other Diseases. New techniques allow researchers to get definitive numbers on how the virus depletes its victims' antibodies and the memory cells that make them.