NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Dr. Ron Cook of Lubbock, Texas, about the measles outbreak in his state – and what the Lubbock Health Department is doing to try to control it.

The death, reported on Wednesday, was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade. Government data ...

Public health experts said that although it’s true we have measles cases in the U.S. every year, the latest outbreak is ...

The child who died in the outbreak is the first U.S. death from the highly contagious but preventable respiratory disease since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the current measles outbreak ...

King County has recorded Washington state's first measles case of the year. Measles is extremely contagious for those who ...

Seattle & King County confirmed a measles case in a King County infant, potentially exposed during recent international travel.

Kennedy Jr. said ending the measles outbreak in Texas is a top priority for him and listed the steps his agency had taken to ...

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low ...

As the Texas measles outbreak grows and HHS head RFK Jr. puts vaccines under new scrutiny, two experts answer questions about the public health tool.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an ...

I do blame him and others like him who, for the past 20 years, have been spreading lies about vaccines," said Rep. Kim ...