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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Health officials in Illinois will give an update Friday on measles cases in the state. Officials say there are currently 10 measles cases in Illinois as they are asking clinicians to ...
The sample with the measles virus was collected on July 7. Utah health officials confirmed the result on July 11.
The CDC says the U.S. has it its highest number of measles cases in decades. Texas Children's Dr. Amya Mitchell spoke with ...
The Illinois Department of Public Health has declared the Southern Illinois measles outbreak over. There were eight total ...
The outbreak of measles in southern Illinois is over, according to IDPH, with no news cases reported since May 22.
As national cases soar and federal leadership engages in vaccine skepticism, Illinois has so far seen a single, small measles outbreak this year that health officials say they quickly brought ...
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that emergency room visits caused by tick bites have spiked in 2025.
There have been 1,277 confirmed cases of measles this year, which has eclipsed 2019 to become the highest annual total since ...
While Illinois has had eight cases of the virus so far this year, at least 1,288 cases have been confirmed nationwide, the ...
Thanks to the introduction of a vaccine in 1963, measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. Now the highly contagious disease has reemerged as a threat as declining vaccination rates fuel ...
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) took steps to prevent the spread of measles, including conducting vaccine outreach clinics, activating mobile vaccinations, and issuing health ...