To keep its elimination status, the U.S. must show that measles has not spread continuously for 12 months, starting Jan. 20 ...

The upcoming review of the U.S. measles elimination status comes after cases reached a 30-year high in late 2025.

For the first time, a map built on the work of Massachusetts-based researchers reveals the measles vaccination rate in every ...

The United States reported a record number of measles cases in 2025, and the virus continues to spread rapidly in the new year. At least ​171 measles cases have been reported in the first two weeks of ...

Over the past five years, measles outbreaks have hit more than 100 countries. Canada lost its official measles elimination status on Nov. 10, 2025. The United States could be next. Eight-month-old ...

Tuesday marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been more new cases in the United States each week since.

In the early 1960s, American childhood was not what it is today. Many children spent hours playing unsupervised in the streets; they rode around in cars without seat belts, then came home to frozen ...

It’s inevitable now that the U.S. will suffer a historic loss in January 2026—the loss of measles elimination status that it had worked so hard to achieve in 2000. That’s because the total number of ...