The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has decided to launch a Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign targeting ...

Only one person has newly tested positive for measles in South Carolina this week, but an Upstate outbreak could continue to ...

A commission in charge of monitoring efforts to eliminate measles from the Americas is meeting this week and could vote to ...

Health experts have urged media persons to raise awareness among public about importance of vaccination for prevention of ...

More than 1,600 cases and three deaths due to measles infections so far this year – mostly in unvaccinated Americans ...

A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas ...

Fiji has officially eliminated measles, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), at a time when cases are on the ...

Rubella has been eliminated from the Americas. More specifically, there has been no indigenous transmission of the virus in North America, South America or the Caribbean for the last three years. This ...

Rubella Eliminated in the U.S. An outbreak of measles this winter that originated at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, sparked a backlash among Americans incredulous that pockets of children and ...

The number of rubella infections is rising in India. Rubella infection is transmitted from a pregnant woman to foetus, thus resulting in babies born with various diseases. It is a contagious, but ...

Many studies have been assigned to investigate the surveillance of congenital rubella syndrome, acquired rubella and seroprevalence in different countries to determine the new vaccination program and ...

First we wiped out smallpox in North and South America. Then we rid the Americas of polio. Now, for the third time, the Americas are the first region in the world to eliminate yet another disease ...