The Kentucky Department for Public Health has reported that an unvaccinated resident of Jessamine County tested positive for measles after being exposed to an infectious traveler who visited Fayette ...

With the US poised to lose its measles-free status, an expert from GeoVax discusses how to win back the minds of Americans.

January is national Birth Defects Awareness Month. Birth defects are the leading cause of infant deaths. VDH reports about ...

U.S. officials are building a case that ongoing measles outbreaks in South Carolina and other states are unrelated to last year’s major outbreak in Texas, as it tries to retain its status of having ...

The CDC recorded 2,065 measles cases in 2025, the highest count since the early 1990s, likely driven by declining vaccination ...

Kentucky has confirmed its first measles case of 2026 in an unvaccinated Jessamine County resident exposed during ...

January 2026 marks a year since measles outbreaks began, which should prompt the Pan American Health Organization to revoke measles elimination status from the U.S.

Three children from the same household, all unvaccinated, had been in an area with a measles outbreak, according to the state ...

The first measles cases hit last fall, and the South Carolina health department declared an outbreak at the start of October.

The outbreak comes after the US charted its highest number of annual measles cases in more than three decades in 2025.

In 2025, the United States had over 2,000 measles cases, the CDC reported, and on the final day of the year the Kentucky ...