vaccines

Anti-vaxxers insist that measles is just a harmless childhood infection. After the Disneyland outbreak, anti-vaxxers derided public health concerns by referring to it as "Mickey Mouse Measles." The facts indicate otherwise.

The MMR vaccine protects against three viral diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella, hence it's name.

The account of the Virginia-based Red Hen restaurant owner insisting Press Secretary Sarah Sanders leave the premises due to presumed political differences has been playing on a loop of social and mainstream media punditry.

A multidisciplinary team from Texas just published their work in PLOS Medicine on U.S.

The reason there is no universal flu vaccine is because the influenza virus constantly changes.

Measles, which still kills about 90,000 people around the world every year, isn't the only microbe making a comeback.

The anti-vaccine movement is not limited just to the United States. Anti-vaxxers are influential in Europe, and the results have been entirely predictable: Europe is in the grip of a measles outbreak.

Rotavirus infection is a very contagious, resulting in gastroenteritis, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea — sometimes severe enough to cause life-threatening dehydration.

It's a shocking number. Last year, nearly 90,000 people around the world died from measles.

It's been one of those days where the truth is stranger than fiction.