measles

Washington health officials are working to prevent measles from spreading after an outbreak of the potentially dangerous disease was declared in Snohomish County.

Snohomish County public health officials are continuing to find more measles cases after declaring an outbreak of the dangerous disease last week. As of Tuesday, five measles cases have been identified.

King County health officials say measles can remain in the air for up to two hours and is easily spread from person to person.

State health officials are struggling to contain a measles outbreak that has sickened mostly Somali-American children. The vaccination rate is low in this tight community that's worried about autism.

If you're traveling this spring, be sure you're vaccinated. 2017 is shaping up as a bad year for the measles, with thousands of cases in Italy and Romania. And vaccine coverage is stagnating.

But that doesn't mean no child in the region will ever catch measles again.

A young woman who didn't know she was infected with measles went to a Kings of Leon concert in Seattle. Public health investigators have reconstructed her movements to warn the public.

A big measles outbreak in British Columbia has crossed over the border into the American Northwest.Health officers in B.C.'s Fraser Valley southeast of…

King County health officials say a child with measles may have infected people at several suburban Seattle tennis clubs.The child is a King County…