Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was confirmed to run the country’s leading health agency, sparking outrage and concern among public health experts. Measles is a highly contagious airborne ...

Public health authorities reported on Feb. 21 that an ongoing measles outbreak ... “I am not going to take away anybody’s vaccine.” That assurance belies his long, long history as an anti ...

That's because early versions of the measles vaccine were made from an inactivated (killed) virus, which didn't work particularly well, Offit says. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and ...

“The best thing to do for measles is vaccinate,” Siegel said. “That vaccine, if you take both doses as a child ... why we need them the way I just did. We have to meet people where they ...

was thoroughly mocked for sharing information about the safety of the measles vaccine — not long after he voted to ... to his followers, the post made him the subject of social media mockery.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has set a goal that at least 95% of children in kindergarten will have gotten two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, a threshold ...