But as recently as the 1960s, measles sickened half a million people in the U.S. annually and killed hundreds. Mumps was a ...

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The discovery of Hendra foreshadowed three decades of emerging infectious diseases dominated by bat-borne zoonotic viruses – ...

Objective To estimate measles-mumps-rubella vaccination coverage ... In 2018, with the reemergence of measles in Brazil, the sustained circulation of the virus and the low vaccination coverage found ...

The MMR vaccine is a powerful tool to prevent three highly contagious viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles). Thanks to the MMR vaccine, introduced in 1963, these serious ...

Joint statement from Albemarle Regional Health Services and Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Due to the access to the MMR vaccine ...

Before the introduction of the mumps vaccine in 1967 in the U.S., more than 90 percent of children and adolescents came down with the infection. Although that percentage plummeted in the 1970s, the ...

A student at River Road Middle School (6th - 8th grade) in Elizabeth City has been diagnosed with mumps, according to Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools. The school district shared a letter ...

A challenging recovery operation continues on the Potomac River after a plane collided with a military helicopter Wednesday evening near Reagan National Airport. Multiple goats died in one of two ...

Below, for worried parents, we explain how to go about giving your child single vaccinations and the facts about measles, mumps and rubella ... or German measles, is a virus which usually causes ...

or even the attenuated form of the virus in measles vaccine? Wakefield's concern deepened when he found that exposure to both measles and mumps in the same year appeared significantly to increase ...

Though HMPV shares similarities with other respiratory viruses like RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), measles, and mumps, it does not have a vaccine, and no antiviral treatments are available.