NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Carlos del Rio about the spiking number of measles cases in South Carolina and about the public health challenges posed by the outbreak.

Quarantine involves staying home 21 days after a known exposure to monitor symptom development. Students who are not ...

North Carolina does not currently have any confirmed measles cases, according to the NC Department of Health & Human Services’ website (as of Friday, Dec. 12 afternoon). A measles case was confirmed ...

Nationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the U.S. Many of ...

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.

The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a ...

In Arizona and Utah, an outbreak has ballooned since August. Mohave County, Arizona has logged 172 cases and the Southwest ...

The state's total count of cases for the year is up to 87, and the new exposures added 281 people to the quarantine list ...

The study also suggests that an outbreak the size of the one in West Texas earlier this year costs about $12.6 million.

Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved ...

Measles cases are surging as deaths from the disease go down globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “Modelled estimates show that the annual number of measles cases decreased from ...