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Michael Angarone, infectious diseases specialist at Northwestern Medicine joins CBS New York to discuss the rise in measles.

America has reached another grim milestone as the number of confirmed cases of the measles hit a record high since the US ...

America has reached another grim milestone as the number of confirmed cases of the measles hit a record high since the US declared the disease "under control" decades ago. A total of 1,267 confirmed ...

Measles vaccines are 97% effective at preventing measles after two doses and 93% after one dose, according to the CDC. The disease was previously eradicated in the U.S. in 2000, meaning there was ...

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And the CDC says vaccine coverage among kindergarteners for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) is below the target 95 percent threshold.

The CDC encouraged camps to maintain documentation of measles immunity status for all campers, staff and volunteers, including anyone with medical or other exemptions from vaccination.

But about 1 in 5 unvaccinated Americans who get measles are hospitalized, the CDC said. Pregnant women who haven't gotten the vaccine may give birth prematurely or have a low-birthweight baby.

The CDC recommends all children get two doses of the MMR, or measles-mumps-rubella, vaccine with the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age and the second dose at 4 to 6 years of age.

An epidemiologist with the CDC Nigeria Global Immunisation Disease, Dr. Joseph Forbi, said measles remains a major cause of childhood illness and deaths worldwide at a media roundtable in Abuja on ...