With measles becoming a growing threat nationwide, federal health officials continue to encourage parents to vaccinate their children to avoid becoming infected by the highly contagious virus.

She now covers breaking and trending news for CBS News' HealthWatch. As measles cases rise across the United States, misinformation about the life-threatening infection can put people at risk.

Ottawa Public Health has begun monitoring wastewater for evidence of measles in the city as the highly infectious disease continues to surge throughout Ontario. That makes Ottawa one of the only ...

Vaccination significantly reduces the likelihood of contracting and spreading measles. The vast majority of confirmed measles cases in the U.S. this year involved unvaccinated individuals.

A confirmed case of measles in Washington, D.C. is being investigated by health officials after the contagious person visited several locations in the district. The DC Department of Health warned ...

Health officials have confirmed three measles cases in Maryland this month but say it’s not time to panic about an outbreak given the state’s more than 96% vaccination rate against the highly ...

Health officials in Ohio have also reported 10 cases this week. "Given the measles activity in Texas, New Mexico, and other states around the country, we're disappointed but not surprised we now ...

Someone with measles traveled to D.C. by train last week, health officials warned on Tuesday. The person who was diagnosed traveled through several places in D.C. while contagious, including an ...

Many people in the U.S. today have no direct experience with measles, a disease that used to infect three or four million people in the nation every year before vaccines became available in 1963.