In the last decade, the percentage of kindergartners with medical exemptions has held steady, at about 0.2%. But the ...

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday.

Mumps Mumps is a highly contagious infection caused by the mumps virus. It starts with flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, tiredness, muscle pain, and loss of appetite before eventually ...

First, up to 10% of mumps infections in teenagers or adults may cause severe complications, including deafness, meningitis and involvement of the testes or ovaries.

Heart Disease A 2015 study in Japan published in Atherosclerosis examined self-reported survey responses from 103,836 people who were not vaccinated against measles between 1988 and 1990. Those ...

A ten-year-old died of a rare brain infection she caught a decade after she had measles and was not given the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. According to doctors, Renae Archer, a resident of ...

Measles is an extremely contagious vaccine-preventable disease that can lead to death or disability. It also wipes out immune memory for several years after an infection. As an outbreak in Texas ...

In rare cases a mumps infection can result in serious conditions like sterility, meningitis and brain inflammation. Two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are 88 percent effective at ...