Older adults may lack protection from measles, which can cause their immune systems to "unlearn" previous defenses to ...

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhea and even death—measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating ...

Although measles is seen as a contagious viral disease that passes quickly, it can also cause damage that leaves long-term health effects. A measles infection can lead to a phenomenon called ...

Studying measles incidence and deaths from infectious disease both before and after the introduction of the measles vaccine in the U.K. in the 1960s, Mina and the team saw a sort of shadow effect ...

From vaccination to immunity, here are your questions about measles answered, as Canada continues to see cases rising in 2025 ...

Measles isn't just deadly -- the disease also can cause long-term damage to a person's immune system, according to research published this week in journal Science Immunology.

After a case of measles was confirmed in Jefferson County, officials recommend the MMR vaccine. What to know about it before ...

The researchers, however, did not see these immune-system effects in a control group of 33 infants who were studied before and after their first vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella.

There have been at least 1,309 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year. Hundreds or thousands of other families have ...

In two of 19 measles-infected children tested, the machinery that supplies the immune system with new disease-targeting cells was profoundly disrupted, raising questions about whether they would ...

Cases have been rising in the UK and around the world, with more than 500 reported since January in England alone. The ...