The government has moved to reassure the public on the safety and efficacy of the Measles-Rubella and Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines (TCV) being rolled out under the national immunization programme, amid ...

New Jersey residents are at a greater risk for measles now that the state no longer has herd immunity. Public health experts ...

For decades, one of the world’s most contagious diseases was considered eradicated in the U.S. But today, measles is roaring ...

Rubella is particularly dangerous to women of childbearing age. “I think the parents who don’t give the vaccine to their children are making a big mistake for unfound reasons,” Plotkin says.

I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having measles in the second grade but have a vague memory of my ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Only Honduran citizen children traveling out of the country to listed destinations, including the US, are affected by a new ...

Dear Dr. Roach: You recently wrote that "nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella)." I was ...

Across the world, 120,000 children continue to be born with severe birth defects from the disease, including 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome from among Japan's 15,000 cases of rubella in 2013.

Duale noted that drug-resistant typhoid strains are on the rise, making the disease more difficult and costly to treat.

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry was born with disabilities caused by Congenital Rubella Syndrome after her mother was exposed to German measles (before even realizing she was pregnant). Sjunneson-Henry ...