A medical epidemiologist explains who should consider getting a booster and whether you might need to check your antibody ...

Even a mild case of measles can lead to ‘immune amnesia,’ lowering the body’s ability to fight off other illnesses.

A bout of measles sends the immune system into shock, demolishing critical cells that help our bodies respond to threats. This can leave people extremely susceptible to other pathogens for weeks after ...

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is now close to 300 cases. Most are unvaccinated children. People usually ...

Measles is an extremely contagious vaccine-preventable disease that can lead to death or disability. It also wipes out immune ...

Experts said there’s no conclusive evidence that a measles infection boosts a person’s immune system later in life against cancer, heart disease or atopic diseases. Several studies show that a measles ...

The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and ...

A highly contagious children's disease thought to have been wiped out 25 years ago has reappeared in the United States.

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

which means that scientists developed it by passing a measles virus through cell cultures and chicken embryos until it became less able to cause serious symptoms in people, but still able to spur ...