Health officials in York Region are warning of a confirmed measles case on an Air Canada flight that landed at Toronto's ...

Measles vaccine protects children beyond just measles by preventing immune memory loss and possibly boosting the immune ...

Public Health Sudbury and Districts has been investigating the source of a recent measles infection since it announced on ...

The number of people with measles in Nova Scotia has grown to 53, but Public Health says all of those patients are no longer ...

After Ebola virus and chickenpox, now scientists have declared measles as the most infections disease on planet after the ...

The death of an Ontario infant born prematurely and infected with measles through the mother is raising questions about how the virus is transmitted during pregnancy. On Thursday, Ontario health ...

Medical experts gauge the infectiousness of a virus by its R-value, otherwise known as its reproduction number. According to Tyrrell, the R-value for measles is 12.

The measles virus, which is highly contagious, can live in the air and on surfaces for two hours. More than 90 per cent of people who aren’t immune to the virus and are exposed to it will become ...