Kissing bugs spread Chagas disease by biting people and then pooping. The nasty bloodsuckers got their nickname because they ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health this week reported the death of a school-aged child due to a rare complication occurring from a measles infection they experienced as an infant.

An unidentified, school-age child from Los Angeles County, California, has died from a rare complication of the measles virus ...

The health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

More than half of Texas' counties have MMR vaccination rates among kindergartners below the threshold the Centers for Disease ...

U.S. Rep. Lois Frank, a Democrat and former mayor of West Palm Beach who now represents the city in Congress, organized the discussion in response to a call a week earlier from Florida's surgeon ...

Lilia Gonzalez, director of nurses, said Health Services would remain available to monitor potential measles outbreaks and ...

Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates. The move is deeply concerning to many ...

As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration's actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency's most critical function — ...

A measles outbreak centered in the rural Arizona town of Colorado City has grown from nine to 12 cases in two days, updated state data shows. On Aug. 25 the number of measles cases in Mohave County ...

The West Texas measles outbreak has, thankfully, ended. Between late January and earlier this month, more than 760 Texans caught the preventable disease, 99 were hospitalized, and two children died.

As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — ...