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.

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating consequences.

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests that measles infection doesn’t just make you ill in the short term; it may also undo years of immune ...

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

Global measles cases surged by 20% last year, reaching an alarming 10.3 million, due to insufficient immunization, according to the WHO and CDC. The highly contagious disease poses severe risks ...

A Global Measles Outbreak. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), both North and South America are now classified as high-risk areas for measles.In the United States, there have been ...

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 ...

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