A local public health unit at the epicentre of Ontario’s measles outbreak will stop providing weekly updates, citing a decrease in reported cases of the highly infectious disease.

Southwestern Public Health – which oversees Oxford and Elgin counties and St. Thomas – has “concluded publishing its weekly measles outbreak report” amid an “ongoing pattern of fewer measles cases ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats we face today. It's often blamed on the overuse of antibiotics, ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats we face today. It’s often blamed on the overuse of antibiotics, ...

Faced with a skeptical religious community at the center of the outbreak, health officials say they may have pushed too hard ...

I work at a mobile health clinic in Southwestern Ontario. Here’s why contagion is spreading through our community.

Measles is a disease caused by the virus Morbillivirus hominis. It’s an RNA virus in the family Paramyxoviridae—meaning it’s ...

More than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year — about the same number as the year before — ...

More than 14 million children worldwide missed routine vaccinations in 2024, matching the previous year's figures, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF on ...

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health experts point to conflict zones as threatening childhood vaccination efforts ...