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Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the ...

N.Y., on Friday urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to declare a public health emergency for measles after confirmed ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to declare a Public ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to immediately declare a public health emergency for measles, blaming the senior ...

The 'eliminated' status is given when there has not been a continuous spread of a disease for more than a year. Measles cases ...

The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years, hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. has seen more measles cases in 2025 than in any year since the virus was declared "eliminated" in 2000.

Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles and drastically reduced the toll of many others. Today, however, some preventable, contagious diseases ...

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating ...

From zero to impact: political leadership key to advancing the non-communicable disease response Katie Dain [email protected] ∙ Marijke Kremin ...