Unvaccinated children are becoming unvaccinated adults, who are at risk of dangerous complications.

Being a child of the 1950s, aside vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox, the rest of the 'common diseases,' mumps, measles, chicken pox, rubella, and whooping cough were in fact, common! Sick days were ...

Proquad is rarely a newsmaker from Merck’s earnings, but this time around, the U.S. has had a series of measles outbreaks.

At least 800 measles cases have been reported nationwide this year, and experts suspect the number is even higher, The New ...

The chicken pox rash spreads in crops and is less predictable ... Since measles is contagious, at least 95% of the community must be vaccinated to prevent outbreaks. However, measles does not provide ...

Before the recent outbreak, there had not been a measles death in the ... The first dose of the vaccine, or the similar measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox) vaccine is typically is ...

The current U.S. measles outbreak follows ... Halsey points out that this pattern is not unique to measles: Chicken pox and hepatitis A are also milder in children than in adults.