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 ...

Your body has five different types of white blood cells, including: You're born with a certain level of protection, or "immunity." That means your body has the ability to protect itself from ...

A public health strategy that pursued ‘natural’ herd immunity would lead to vastly higher morbidity and mortality than one that pursued vaccine-induced herd immunity. However, one need not endorse ...

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 ...