The surge in measles is mostly due to a decline in vaccination rates and an increase in vaccination exemptions. Vaccination coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot in children has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading U.S. health official on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of ...

Four additional measles cases in Penobscot County were confirmed this week, ten days after the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Maine’s first case of the highly contagious ...

The New Mexico Department of Health reported eight cases of measles in Lea County.

The adult who was confirmed to carry the highly contagious respiratory illness traveled to a state with a measles case, the Maine CDC said.