As the summer holiday season gets going, families are being warned of measles outbreaks in many popular European destinations, with vaccination rates in the UK still far below what experts advise.

Measles has been on the rise for months. Last year was the worst for measles in Europe and Central Asia since 1997, with more than 120,000 cases reported across the region.

In the United States, more than 1,000 cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2025.

Europe saw the highest number of measles cases last year in more than 25 years, according to a new report published Thursday from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.. There were an ...

UNICEF said about 40% of measles infections in Europe and Central Asia were in children younger than 5 and more than half of all people sickened had to be hospitalized.

Experts are urging people to ensure they are up to date with their MMR vaccines after an increase in measles cases in ...

The rise in cases, according to an alert on Alder Hey Children’s Hospital websites, is also driving an increase in patients ...

Measles, a disease preventable by vaccination, is resurgent in parts of Europe, including Britain. Small outbreaks have also popped up in multiple parts of the United States. In Europe, reported ...

The number of measles cases in Europe has hit a record high of more than 41,000, the World Health Organization says. That means that, little more than halfway through the year, 2018 is already the ...

California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, a worrisome development that comes as the ...

In Europe, the W.H.O. attributed the recent outbreak mostly to falling vaccination rates, too, though there the declines were of roughly the same scale: for the first dose of the M.M.R. vaccine ...