The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said 68% of Rubella, or German measles, cases in the country reported from January 1 to March 1, 2025 were unvaccinated ...

The measles vaccine is known as the MMR vaccine: measles, mumps and rubella (the latter is also known as German measles). It is a live vaccine and should not be given to pregnant women or some ...

Since the beginning of the year, Texas has had 227 measles cases, including 29 hospitalizations and the death of one child, ...

protects 97 percent of people against measles, 88 percent against mumps and at least 97 percent against rubella (German measles). MMR is used widely around the world, with over 500 million does ...

He hadn’t been expecting a stranger with a notepad, but he listened as I explained that I had come to town to write about the ...

More information about the case is below. On Thursday, Mexia ISD in Limestone County reported one case of German measles, also known as Rubella, within the district. However, on Friday ...

Health officials say West Texas now has almost 200 measles cases and New Mexico's case number has tripled to 30. The case ...

In Gaines County, where Seminole is located, the measles-vaccination rate among kindergartners ... particularly to the Low German–speaking Mennonite community. He asked three local churches ...

It may hard for younger people to accept this, but when I was in medical school, we talked casually of patients having had “the usual childhood diseases,” referring to measles, mumps, chicken pox and ...

Measles was first described as separate from smallpox in the 800s by a Persian doctor. The infectious nature of it was shown ...