By Chad Terhune and Julie Steenhuysen SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, Feb 13 (Reuters) - About a dozen times each day, medical ...

The virus spreads from animals to humans, via person-to-person contact or through consuming contaminated food.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, usually transmitted from animals such as fruit bats to humans or through contaminated food.

The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 17 cases of measles, bringing the number to 950 in the outbreak ...

More than 40 people have fallen ill at Ave Maria University, raising fears that college campuses may soon experience more ...

Since measles vaccination became common among Americans, the logic of outbreaks has been simple: When vaccination rates fall, infections rapidly rise; when vaccination rates increase, cases abate. The ...

At least seven more nursing students at a Florida's Ave Maria University have contracted measles, health officials said.

A 25-year-old nurse died of cardiac arrest 2 days after testing negative for Nipah. Doctors say she died of a secondary lung ...

Many public health scholars worry that the resurgence of measles across the U.S. and worldwide, driven by a drop in ...

Families have been urged to ensure vaccinations are up to date to protect youngsters from the highly contagious infection ...