While weekly reported cases have slowed over the past few months, the CDC’s figure surpasses the high of 1,274 cases in 2019 and marks a grim milestone for the U.S. as immunization coverage wanes across the country and the federal government’s vaccine policy shifts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Measles has been a scourge for centuries, afflicting millions of people. It has been blamed, in part, for decimating native populations of the Americas as Europeans explored the New World. In ...

In the first seven months of 2025, confirmed measles cases have reached 1,288 — marking the most infections since 1992. While weekly reported cases have slowed over the past few months, the CDC ...

Confirmed measles cases in the U.S. reached 1,288, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Wednesday, the highest since the childhood disease was declared eliminated from the country in 2000.

Historical context demonstrates vaccine effectiveness The dramatic reduction in measles cases and deaths following the introduction of the measles vaccine in the 1960s provides compelling evidence ...

The growing measles outbreak in the U.S. Southwest claimed a second life this week. So far this year, more than 220 cases have been reported across 12 states, with the majority in Texas. John Yang ...

But in the American context, the data for vitamin A use in measles is “weak,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of ...