BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Leaders from the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) encourage residents to get vaccinated as measles and whooping cough cases rise in the U.S. Newly reappointed ...

Health officials emphasize that the measles vaccine is the most effective protection against the highly infectious virus. Louisiana Department of Health has reported the third confirmed case of ...

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed a measles case in a resident of Region 9, who was exposed during international travel. The patient, whose vaccination status is ...

LOUISIANA, USA — State health officials say no new measles cases have been detected across the state. Doctors say if small children or infants get whooping cough, it could be fatal. The Louisiana ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Leaders from the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) will give an update on measles and whooping cough cases in the state. The updates will be given at 2 p.m.

Before he crossed the hospital room, Dr. Mark Kline already knew what he was looking at. A child admitted to a Dallas hospital in the late 1980s had been sick for days with a fever, rash and no clear ...

With two measles cases recently reported in Louisiana, hospitals are gearing up to treat the highly contagious disease that has seen a resurgence as vaccination rates have declined across the country.

A second case of measles has been confirmed in Louisiana in the greater New Orleans area, Louisiana Department of Health officials said at a press conference Monday. The second case of measles was ...