Scientists are warning that the ongoing measles outbreak might force the United States to lose its elimination status for the first time in decades. The big picture: For 25 years, the U.S. has been free of yearly measles outbreaks.

Scientists are determining whether multi-state outbreaks are linked to the West Texas outbreak that started earlier this year.

The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday in a news release that those who are infected are either ...

Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals and led to the death of two unvaccinated children.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday appeared to downplay the seriousness of the West Texas measles outbreak that has killed a school-age child. The child’s death, the first from the disease in a decade in the United ...

Spartanburg's 'accelerating' measles outbreak has surpassed 100 cases. The underlying causes go beyond simple exposure into culture and experiences

South Carolina health officials on Friday confirmed an additional 15 new cases of measles since Tuesday, as the widening outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in the northwest part of the state has infected 126 people so far.

Nationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the U.S. Many of those cases are in South Carolina.