The World Health Organization considers measles eliminated until it has spread unchecked for a year. Canada is set to be the ...

The Americas is the only region of the world to have stopped endemic transmission of measles. But its victory is on the verge ...

All of the World Health Organization's regions have committed to eliminating measles by 2030, defined by the absence of local ...

Canada eliminated measles in 1998. The U.S. followed two years later, in 2000. There are multiple criteria for losing an ...

Canada has tallied more than 5,000 cases this year, more than twice as many as the country recorded in the past 25 years ...

The World Health Organization has warned of a growing measles outbreak in Afghanistan, urging parents to urgently vaccinate ...

Canada may lose its measles elimination status amid a yearlong outbreak that has infected more than 5,000 people and killed ...

A year since measles started raging in Canada, the outbreak's subsided, but the virus shows no signs of being stamped out. Doctors say problems here — from distrust of medical officials in vulnerable ...

Measles and rubella are easily preventable via inoculation with the MMR vaccine. Health experts in Central Asia and the ...

The recent confirmation of new measles cases unconnected to international travel suggests the highly contagious disease has ...

A nationwide measles and rubella vaccination campaign will kick off in Tank on November 17 under the supervision of the ...

Neither the U.S. nor Canada has been able to stop continuous spread of the highly contagious virus within the past year.