The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of leading human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in more than 40 countries, is sounding the alarm over a sharp ...

Children line up to be vaccinated by UNICEF-supported health workers in Madagascar in 2019. Almost 1,000 people, mostly children, have died from measles in Madagascar since September 2018.

Global measles cases surge amid stagnating vaccinations The disease killed an estimated 141,000 people last year, most of them children under the age of 5, according to the World Health Organization.

Global Measles Cases Surge By 20 Percent In A Single Year, WHO Reports Measles is extremely contagious, but is ultimately preventable if immunization programs can be maintained. Dr. Russell Moul ...

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhea and even death—measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is putting clinicians on alert about the growing risk of measles cases and outbreaks amid a global surge in transmission.. In an outreach message ...

Measles has been surging in parts of Canada, particularly Alberta and Ontario for months, and the virus appears now to be spreading within British Columbia.

A significant number of children remain unvaccinated, with global inequities and aid reduction stalling progress. Experts ...

US is seeing a surge in number of measles cases since the disease was declared "eliminated" in 2000. The US is seeing a worst ...

Although in 2022, the figure of fatalities was higher at just above 136,200, as the WHO report notes, “the surge in [2023] cases occurred in countries and regions where children with measles are ...

More than 14 million children worldwide did not receive a single vaccine last year, a figure that remains stubbornly ...

Measles cases increased globally by 20% in 2023, and roughly 22 million children missed their first measles vaccine dose, according to the CDC and WHO’s annual global measles report.