A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with ...

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

“We have measles outbreaks every year,” he added. Mr. Kennedy has also said in the past that immunizations against measles ...

A child has died of measles in Texas, the first death in an outbreak that's infected at least 124 people. HHS secretary RFK ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles ...

Robert F. Kennedy, in his first comments on measles as the new Trump health secretary, says the outbreak is not unusual. 'We ...

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

The vaccine-skeptic HHS secretary said outbreaks happen “every year” — but this is the first death since 2015.

Rates of measles in the US have climbed significantly over the past 20 years, as vaccine skepticism has grown.

The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.

There is a conspicuous lack of encouragement from Kennedy for people in Texas, New Mexico, or elsewhere around the country to get the MMR vaccine.

While there are usually cases and even minor outbreaks reported yearly, the 2025 outbreak is on track to be the largest in ...