Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is issuing a public warning over the potential exposure to measles at four locations on Jan. 11 and 15. The locations involve flights from Romania to Germany and from Germany to Toronto, an ONroute location and a walk-in clinic in Windsor, Ont. The … Read more
The World Health Organization is warning of an “alarming rise” of measles cases in Europe that is only accelerating. There were 42,200 measles cases across 41 WHO European Region member states in 2023 — up from 941 cases reported in all of 2022, according to WHO. The organization said in a release Wednesday that the … Read more
LONDON — U.K. health officials on Monday urged millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade. The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there were about … Read more
Measles used to be the single leading killer of children before a worldwide vaccination campaign in the 1960s. However, recently the deadly disease has seen a shocking resurgence throughout England and Wales, according to the latest data. The suspected cases of measles more than doubled in 2023 compared to the year before. There were 1,603 … Read more
Health officials in Philadelphia are urging members of the public to ensure they’re vaccinated against measles ― and to follow quarantine orders if they’re exposed ― amid an outbreak of the extremely contagious virus in the city and surrounding area. At least eight people had been diagnosed with measles as of Friday, a spokesperson for … Read more
What if scientists had developed a universal coronavirus vaccine in the years prior to 2020 so that it was available at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic? A universal coronavirus vaccine targets parts of the virus that are common to either many or all coronaviruses, thereby offering some degree of protection against a range of … Read more
Texas A&M University School of Public Health research on attitudes toward pet vaccination and how they may be linked with human vaccine hesitancy was the subject of a new study recently published in the journal Vaccine. Simon Haeder, Ph.D., associate professor, analyzed data from an August 2023 survey of more than 2,000 dog and more … Read more
Mayo Clinic researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who succumbed to a rare, lethal brain disease. New cases of this disease, which is a complication of the measles virus, may occur as measles reemerges among the unvaccinated, say researchers. Using the latest tools in genetic sequencing, … Read more
