Confirmed measles cases rose to 90 in Texas with 57 of them being in Gaines County, and five were in vaccinated individuals.

Health care providers say that hesitation and outright resistance to vaccines have become disturbingly common even in ...

Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children, with at least 15 confirmed cases. It's the latest outbreak of a disease that had been ...

“What’s your view of herd immunity?” someone non-medical asked me at a party recently. “How long have you got?” I replied. It’s my way of avoiding an argument when I sense that somebody wants to ...

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Dairy cows build a natural immunity to H5N1 after initial infection ... and for the producers and making sure that they can protect their herd,” he said. According to VIDO, the discovery ...

1950. A population’s protection against polio outbreaks is largely influenced by herd immunity—the threshold at which a large enough proportion of people are immune to a disease from ...

Measles vaccination rates among Pennsylvania kindergarteners are declining, with only 23 out of 67 counties meeting the 95% herd immunity target. Experts attribute the decline to factors like ...

Jean Carroll’s attorneys pejoratively likened President Trump to the Wizard of Oz in new court documents filed Monday as they pushed back on his claims that presidential immunity protects him ...

Once vaccination rates fall below 95%, infectious disease specialists worry about the loss of herd immunity to protect people who are unvaccinated or cannot be vaccinated for health reasons such ...

Jean Carroll are arguing over whether a Supreme Court decision affording him substantial criminal immunity also shields him from having to pay tens of millions in damages for insulting her and ...