On a typical busy day at the Seminole Family Medical Clinic in Seminole, Texas (population, 7386), Leila Myrick, MD, PhD — who’d moved to the rural town 5 years earlier after graduating from Emory ...

RICHFIELD — More Utahns are being diagnosed with the highly contagious measles virus. The Central Utah Health Department announced in a news release Monday that two measles cases have been confirmed ...

With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year. A surge in measles cases has cost Canada its official measles-free ...

Canada has lost its measles elimination status nearly three decades after it achieved the distinction, under circumstances that closely resemble what’s happened in the U.S. this year. The Pan American ...

Over the past five years, measles outbreaks have hit more than 100 countries. Canada lost its official measles elimination status on Nov. 10, 2025. The United States could be next. Eight-month-old ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Health officials sent out a warning on Wednesday, saying Arizonans may have been exposed to the measles in three different public places last week. Maricopa County Department of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials are warning that there may have been a possible measles exposure at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health says an ...

With ongoing measles outbreaks since October 2024, Canada has now lost their measles elimination status attained in 1998. (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images) Oh, Canada. What have you done?

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday. It’s the first country in the Americas to do so since the pandemic, and it could serve as a warning ...

The country has seen continuous measles transmission for more than 12 months. Canada has lost its measles elimination status after struggling to contain a year-long outbreak, the country's public ...

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Canada has officially lost its measles elimination status, meaning the highly contagious disease is once again spreading consistently there. The declaration was made by the Pan American Health ...