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The latest news on Measles, an infection that spreads very easily and can cause serious problems in some people. Having the MMR vaccine is the best way to prevent it. Measles usually starts with cold-like symptoms.

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Map shows where measles outbreaks are spreading across US states

Channel: US US 2 days ago By Jessica Kwong
The mother of the child who died on the right, and a boy with measles on the left

Anti-vax parents 'have no regrets' after daughter died from measles

Channel: US US 4 days ago By Luke Alsford
Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

Unvaccinated child is the first to die of measles in a decade in the US

Channel: US US February 26, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
Map reveals measles outbreak across Europe

Map reveals measles hotspots after outbreaks across Europe

Channel: World World June 5, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
GOSSELIES, BELGIUM - JUNE 18: A Boeing 737-8AS from Ryanair coming from Dublin is landing in Brussels South Charleroi Airport on June 18, 2023 in Belgium. Ryanair is an Irish ultra low cost airline founded in 1984 headquartered in Swords, Ireland. Irish budget airline Ryanair is keen to buy slots that International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (IAG) may be forced to give up for its proposed acquisition of Air Europa to be approved by Europe's antitrust regulator. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Urgent warning over disease outbreak on Ryanair flight

Channel: UK UK May 24, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Georgia House's husband James in hospital with daughter Margot. Release date ??? April 22, 2024. A mum whose baby was hospitalised with measles amid a sharp rise in cases is begging parents to get their kids vaccinated. Georgia House, 29, spent five days in London???s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with five-month-old Margot after she caught the highly contagious infection. Margot, who had a had a cold, a cough, and a red blotchy rash, is too young to be vaccinated. She caught the virus when she was at the same hospital being treated for a completely separate an allergic reaction in early April. The infant had to be connected to oxygen and feeding tubes to help her fight the virus and at one point her oxygen levels were frighteningly low. Georgia is desperate to encourage other parents to vaccinate their children - as the UK records a dramatic increase in the number of measles infections.

Urgent measles warning to parents as cases rise in London

Channel: UK UK May 16, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
GPs warning patients should mask-up after whooping cough outbreak

Face masks are making a comeback in GP surgeries to tackle 100-day cough

Channel: UK UK May 13, 2024 By Jasper King
England 100 day cough map per hundredthousand Map shows worst hit areas for whooping cough

Map shows worst hit areas for whooping cough

Channel: UK UK May 15, 2024 By Sam Courtney-Guy

Childhood jabs could be replaced by painless plasters

Channel: Tech Tech May 1, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 04, 2020 a volunteer is injected with a syringe containing either the vaccine or a placebo, at the start of a clinical trial being set up by TASK, a clinical research organisation based in Cape Town, to see whether the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, which is given to babies in the country to protect them against tuberculosis, helps limit the damage caused by COVID-19, at a Hospital in Cape Town. - Orders for vaccines against diseases such as measles have declined since a national emergency was declared in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said May 8, 2020. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Map reveals suspected measles cases across the UK

Channel: UK UK March 3, 2024 By Will Neal
NEWS: [Subcat: US} Map shows which US states have had measles outbreaks in 2024 (SEO/DISC)

Map shows which US states have had measles outbreaks in 2024

Channel: US US February 28, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

After what we've been through my son is so terrified he still sleeps in his coat

Channel: World World February 7, 2024 By Sarah Ingram
Boy in trouble for standing on table in class

The kids are not alright – how can bad behaviour in schools be fixed?

Channel: Letters Letters January 22, 2024 By Letters Editor
Child receiving their MMR vaccination

Areas with best and worst MMR vaccination rates revealed – is yours on the list?

Channel: Tech Tech March 14, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

The fake MMR claims that struck fear into generations of parents

Channel: Tech Tech January 23, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
File photo dated 25/04/13 of a measles vaccination being administered. Children who catch measles are more vulnerable to other serious infections for the next two to three years, experts have warned. PA Photo. Issue date: Friday September 6, 2019. Scientists believe the disease, which is seeing a resurgence across the UK, wipes out a child's immunity to other illnesses. See PA story HEALTH Measles. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

Warning to parents over 'very real' risk of measles outbreaks

Channel: UK UK January 22, 2024 By Craig Munro
Mildew culture on agar plate, laboratory scene

Deaths from fungal infections have doubled – and there are no vaccines

Channel: Tech Tech January 16, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
A child about to be given the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccination into their arm by a surgery nurse with a hypodermic syringe, England, UK.

A once eradicated disease now poses fatal risk to children, expert warns

Channel: Tech Tech January 16, 2024 By Katherine Fidler
Little boy feeling pain while getting a vaccine

No more needles? Scientists discover surprising new way to give vaccines

Channel: Tech Tech December 4, 2023 By Katherine Fidler
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Design Pics Inc/REX/Shutterstock (4654675a) Pigs poke snouts through enclosure, Tiger Leaping Gorge Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China VARIOUS

Swine flu symptoms revealed for 2023 as outbreak hits UK

Channel: UK UK November 29, 2023 By Josh Milton