That same year, biologists in Japan identified a receptor on the surface of cells that the measles virus uses to break in.

T he elimination of measles from the Americas in 2016 was spectacular. No other region of the world had ever managed to go a ...

Measles has been so rare in many countries that some physicians have never seen a case — but that is changing. The United States recorded more than 2,000 cases last year, more than in any other year ...

Diseases once thought confined to history are making a comeback in Australia. And vaccination is only part of the story.

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 ...

The measles outbreak in South Carolina — the largest the United States has had in decades — has ended, state health officials announced Monday. There were nearly 1,000 confirmed cases over about six ...