Measles can survive for up to two hours in the air in a space where an infected person has been, sickening up to 90% of ...

The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Oluwaseun Aiyedatiwa, has urged community leaders and relevant stakeholders to intensify ...

Emergency vaccination campaigns have slashed deaths from major infectious disease outbreaks by nearly 60 per cent since 2000, ...

The Ekiti State government has urged the Council of Traditional Rulers to assist in facilitating advocacy, sensitisation ...

“We’ve been hearing in the media accurately about how Alberta has become the measles capital of North America, and it has the ...

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): Health officials in western Ghor say more than 300 children were infected with measles during the first three months of this solar year and two of them died from the disease.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago, just as a key Senate ...

The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Oluwaseun Aiyedatiwa, has described measles-rubella as a preventable tragedy that Nigerians must collectively work to eliminate.

Rubella vaccination campaign is being led by the Ministry of Health in partnership with the World Health Organisation(WHO) and UNICEF. It targets children aged 9 months to 5 years across high-risk ...

The mother of a girl who died of complications from having measles as a baby has urged parents to get their children vaccinated.

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between 2020 and 2023, said an author of the study published in The Lancet. The world ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has confirmed that not fewer than 24 children under 5 have lost their lives to measles outbreak in Zamfara this year. The organisation however lamented that most of ...