New Jersey residents are at a greater risk for measles now that the state no longer has herd immunity. Public health experts ...

(AP) - Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high.

Cases of the highly contagious illness have been increasing across the country, with a case recently discovered in Oregon.

Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been ...

Measles is highly contagious among those who are unvaccinated; outbreaks can have severe health consequences in children ...

With a 97% effective vaccine, 3% of children rely on ‘halos’ of herd immunity protection, clinicians say. Declining ...

One expert said new polling shows that more support for vaccines is needed to achieve herd immunity for many diseases.

There is no such thing as “Herd Immunity” for COVID-19. In this context it is a concept as antiquated as the “Earth is Flat”. The theory was based upon the work of William Farr in 1840 who ...

How hiring the wrong medical “expert” derailed US pandemic response An advocate for herd immunity inside the White House pushed to increase infections. John Timmer – Jun 23, 2022 10:49 AM | 485 ...

Herd immunity via vaccination, and the calculations above, assume vaccines stop transmission 100% of the time. Although vaccines reduce transmission to a significant degree, they do not prevent it ...

Herd immunity via vaccination, and the calculations above, assume vaccines stop transmission 100 per cent of the time. Although vaccines reduce transmission to a significant degree, they do not ...