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The Texas public health department reported 36 more measles cases on Friday in the outbreak that began in Gaines County.

Measles cases rose to a total of 800 patients so far in 2025 as of Thursday in 25 U.S. jurisdictions, including Texas and New ...

Michigan officials confirmed a new measles outbreak Thursday near Grand Rapids, bringing the U.S. to eight states with active ...

Public health officials across Arizona are on high alert as the CDC reports more than 700 cases of measles this year, ...

Canada has reported more than 730 cases this year, making this one of the worst measles outbreaks in the country since it declared the virus “eliminated” in 1998. Mexico has seen at least 360 measles ...

Before the vaccine, the virus spread in a world very different from today’s.