Dropping vaccination rates and changes in U.S. vaccine policy have public health experts concerned that annual measles outbreaks could become more frequent.

Measles, a highly contagious virus, is spreading rapidly across the U.S., meaning an outbreak in North Carolina is bound to ...

Taxonomy — classifying viruses into genus, species and so forth — has the power to affect public health For the first time, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) will hold its ...

May 30—Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM), researchers at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, have revealed the first high-resolution renderings of the measles ...

Measles is a highly contagious virus with a primary case reproduction number (i.e., the average number of secondary cases per case patient) of 12 to 18.

“They tested for the virus presence in samples from the same date and collection site and confirmed the signal using another technique, PCR.” “As a reference, the 821 Houston wastewater samples we ...