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A smoke-filled stench fills a refugee camp just a short walk from the U.S.-Mexico border, rising from ever-burning fires and piles of human waste. Parents and children live in a sea of tents and tarps, some patched together with garbage bags. Others sleep outside in temperatures that recently dropped to freezing. Justina, an asylum seeker who fled political persecution in...

Health officials are reporting Indiana’s first influenza-related death of the season in Marion County.

Dr. Anna Nguyen spoke with none of the five patients she treated on a recent weekday morning. She didn’t even leave her dining room.

A west suburban Batavia woman diganosed with Legionnaires’ Disease shared about her battle with the disease on Monday with NBC 5.

U.S. health officials are investigating what might be causing hundreds of serious breathing illnesses in people who use e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. They have identified 380 confirmed and probable cases in 36 states and one territory, including six deaths.

A teenage girl with measles visited Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Universal Studios theme parks this month and may have exposed other park-goers to the disease, Orange and Los Angeles County health officials said Friday.

Nearly 100 more measles cases have been reported across the nation since last week, marking a 10 percent increase in total cases as the number in the U.S.’ worst outbreak in decades eclipses the 800 mark, officials said Monday.

Five dozen more measles cases have been reported across the nation, an 8 percent increase over the prior week as the case total in the U.S.’ worst outbreak in decades edges closer to a stunning 800, officials said Monday.

A woman who went to the midnight showing of “Avengers: Endgame” at an Orange County movie theater last week was diagnosed with measles, and now health officials are warning others in the crowd that they may have been exposed.

Quarantines in California. Fines in New York City. Orders for some people to avoid public places in Rockland County, New York. As an outbreak of measles surges across the United States — with 704 cases this year and counting — some local health officials are trying to deal with contagion in unvaccinated communities by turning to extraordinary police powers from...

State public health workers are increasing accessibility to vaccines in response to an outbreak of measles in the U.S. that includes seven cases in Illinois.

Measles in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in 25 years, closing in on 700 cases this year in a resurgence largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against vaccines. “This is alarming,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. Not only is measles dangerous in itself, but its return could mean other vaccine-preventable diseases...

Babies wail as a nurse tries to reassure mothers who have come to vaccinate their children against a measles outbreak that has killed more than 1,200 people in this island nation where many are desperately poor. Madagascar faces its largest measles outbreak in history, with cases soaring well beyond 115,000, but resistance to vaccinating children is not the driving force...

Doctors at two north suburban hospitals sent hundreds of letters to parents urging them to get their kids vaccinated against measles after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning of large outbreaks near major U.S. cities.

Doctors at two north suburban hospitals sent hundreds of letters to parents urging them to get their kids vaccinated against measles after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning of large outbreaks near major U.S. cities. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the latest details.

Kingston Pharma is recalling bottles of children’s cough syrup sold at Dollar General stores nationwide over concerns that the medicine could make babies sick. The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that the Massena, New York-based company is recalling 2-fluid ounce bottles of DG health NATURALS baby Cough Syrup + Mucus because it could possibly be contaminated with Bacillus cereus...

Doctors say the measles vaccine should be given to every child able to take it–and now a new study gives parents one less reason to resist.

Despite a series of findings that has debunked any link between autism and the measles vaccine, some parents still say they refuse to vaccinate their kids because they don’t want to take the chance. Now, doctors say this study gives them one more tool to persuade nervous parents. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Health officials are warning of potential measles exposure after a passenger who was diagnosed was believed to be infectious while traveling through Midway Airport and seeking treatment at Delnor Hospital last week.

President Donald Trump twisted circumstances behind the deaths of two migrant Guatemalan children to insulate his administration from any blame, contending without justification that they were in dire health before they reached the border....
Trump addressed the matter during a week in which he also misrepresented what he’s done for military pay in a speech to troops in Iraq and told...