The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed a measles case from an unvaccinated Bryan County resident. That marks the second reported measles case in Georgia so far this year.
Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term.
As South Carolina's outbreak grows to 876 confirmed cases, vaccinations in the state surged in January. Cases have also been reported in two ICE detention facilities.
More than 550 people have contracted measles in Spartanburg County, S.C., in a fast-growing outbreak. Like a majority of U.S. counties, nonmedical exemptions to school vaccination are also rising.
As the federal government makes major changes to food and vaccine policy, public health funding to states is in question, and a neighbor state battles measles, Georgia's Department of Public Health hasn't met since September.
In 2024, Romania, an upper middle income European country, had over 30,000 cases — putting it on the world's top ten measles list. Its vaccination rate hovers around 60%. How did this happen?
Public health workers spent about 200 extra work hours to track down 268 people who might’ve been exposed to measles in recent weeks in an outbreak that began with an unvaccinated Georgia State University student, Fulton County health officials said Tuesday.
Measles has spread from an unvaccinated Georgia State University student to three other people, bringing the total cases reported in Georgia this year to 10.
The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed its sixth measles case of 2025. The individual is an unvaccinated family member of a previous case.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's what they say and what it means for public health in the U.S.
Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since 2000, despite a chaotic reorganization of federal health agencies.
Against a backdrop of confusing messaging from the federal government, Georgia officials discussed who should consider getting a booster of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
