He believed measles was a natural stage of childhood rather than an infectious illness. He called the disease hasba, meaning "eruption." Its current name derives from the 14th-century Arabic word ...

What does that mean for us? Below, experts break it down: More outbreaks will occur if measles vaccination rates continue to drop. According to the CDC, roughly 93% of kindergarten students had ...

The rise in cases is particularly troubling since Measles was considered to be eradicated by the US since 2000, meaning the disease should no longer be constantly present, despite occasional ...

You are about to create a live-attenuated vaccine, which means that you need to alter a pathogen—in this case a measles virus—so that it will still invade cells in the body and use those cells ...

Measles has a devastating impact on the body's immune system that could make it harder to fight infections for years, a pair of studies show. The virus can cause "immune amnesia" - meaning the ...