TEHRAN, Nov 28_Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, more than double the toll in the country's Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization says.
TEHRAN, Sept 04 -New York City health officials and Mayor Bill de Blasio declared the city's largest measles outbreak in 30 years over Tuesday, after hundreds of diagnoses.
TEHRAN, August 20 - British health officials say they will take "urgent action" to improve vaccination rates after an unusually high number of measles this year has led the World Health Organization to pull its status as a " measles -free" nation.
TEHRAN, Jul 18 - The German government is proposing a measure to make measles vaccinations mandatory for children and employees of kindergartens and schools.
TEHRAN, Jun 6 -The number of measles cases in the United States surpassed 1,000 Wednesday, a milestone Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar called "troubling."
TEHRAN, May 29 - The number of measles cases in the United States hit 940 last week, the highest number reported since 1994, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
TEHRAN, May 21- Measles cases in the United States rose to 880 last week, to the highest level in 25 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
TEHRAN, Apr 28 -As measles cases in the United States climb to the highest number in two decades, advocates said Thursday nearly 170 million children worldwide have not been vaccinated for most of the current decade.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 - The United States has confirmed 695 measles cases so far this year, the highest level since the country declared it had eliminated the virus in 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Apr 09- Reported cases of measles increased by nearly 100 last week, to 465 across 19 states, the Centers for Disease Control and prevention said on Monday.
TEHRAN, Mar 08 - Two months ago, giggles floated through the home of fisherman Dada as his four-year-old son played ball outside with his two younger cousins on one of Madagascar's famed sun soaked beaches.
TEHRAN, Mar 05 -"In a study of more than 650,000 Danish children, there was no difference in the risk of autism in vaccinated and unvaccinated children," said lead researcher Anders Hviid.
TEHRAN, July 11, YJC - The World Health Organization said measles has killed 35 children in Europe in the last year, calling it an "unacceptable tragedy" that deaths are being caused by a vaccine-preventable disease.