Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

The US eliminated measles in 2000: Why is it back now?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to be "on alert" for patients with symptoms of measles—a virus declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000—after nearly two dozen cases have been ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

U.S. measles cases now exceed 100: CDC

(HealthDay)—The number of measles cases in the United States has climbed to 102, federal health officials reported Monday, with most of the cases part of the ongoing outbreak traced to Disney amusement parks in southern ...

Vaccination

Five reasons why young people should get a COVID booster vaccine

Vaccination has played a substantial role in reducing the impact of COVID across the globe, and allowed life in most countries to gradually return to something like how we remember it before the pandemic. Researchers estimate ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Is measles' return the 'New normal'?

(HealthDay)—Is measles really back? That's the question vexing everyone from pediatricians to policymakers to parents as the outbreak of the dangerous childhood disease that was declared eliminated from the United States ...

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