Measles

Measles, a condition medically known as rubeola, is highly contagious. To get better informed on this dangerous disease, we’ve compiled a list of the signs and symptoms of measles.

A Washington State woman has succumbed to measles. She’s the first U.S. resident to die of the disease in more than a decade. It’s believed the woman, whose name has not been released, may have died because she showed few of the symptoms associated with measles–including a rash. In fact, the infection wasn’t detected until […]

Measles is highly contagious, and understanding the virus and what you can do to protect yourself, family, and others around you is important for the health and safety of people worldwide. Like many other viruses, measles outbreaks come and go. Though North America doesn’t typically report many cases of the measles each year, the last […]

A United States senator says it’s time to make the measles vaccine just as available as the flu vaccine — and that means making it free. Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus that can be spread through the air — usually through coughing and sneezing. Early symptoms include fever, runny […]

The sun and surf aren’t the only things that are contagious in California. Not with the recent measles outbreak in the state reaching 68 cases, according to state officials. Forty-two cases in the growing measles outbreak in Califorina have been linked back to an initial outbreak at Disneyland, which started in December, after park-goers and […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the number of measles cases in the United States has risen to 288 for this year alone. That’s the highest number for any year since 2000 and the most reported in the first five months of a year since 1994. CDC officials reported that the U.S. […]

Health experts with the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that more people have come down with measles in the first four months of 2014 than have been infected in the first four months of the past 18 years. The CDC says that there have been 13 outbreaks and 129 cases […]

When you hear stories about the measles, up until this year, it was probably in the recollection of a childhood memory told by your parents or grandparents. However, 2014 brought the reality of the measles back to North America when the highly contagious disease seemingly started popping up without warning—from one-off cases being transported back […]

New reports from the local Urdu TV channel Dunya, in Southern Pakistan, show a devastating number of children have died from the measles in the last month. At least 7 children died on Sunday from measles, and 154 kids have died in the last 29 days. There have been over 1200 cases of measles in children since November. […]

Six cases of measles in the last year in Saskatchewan, Canada have health officials concerned. The first case was reported last September (2011) but the new cases mark the first outbreak of the contagious disease in over 15 years. “Today, measles is a rare disease in Canada,” said Dr. Julie Kryzanowski, Deputy Medical Health Officer […]