Thousands of families are claiming that routine and sometimes mandatory vaccines have caused their children to become autistic. One family went before a federal court Monday to plead their case.

If the court side with the family, they could receive compensation from the government fund set up for people hurt by the shots to protect the program

Canadian health authorities have quarantined around 130 Japanese tourists, mostly high school students, in a hotel in the Rocky Mountain resort town of Banff due to one member of the group testing positive for measles.

According to Dr. Judy MacDonald, a medical officer of health with the Calgary Health Region, the move is precautionary and the group is being tested for their immunity to measles

Infectious diseases are not the widespread ailment affecting children's health like they once did.

The new millennium school children are suffering from obesity, depression and behavioral problems rather than the measles or mumps.

According to the Centre for Child and Community Health, a large number of young children, including toddlers and babies, are suffering from mental health issues as opposed to infections

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nation World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a plan to immunize a total of 16 million people for measles in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday.

The measles outbreak affecting the DPRK began in November 2006 and has affected 3,500 people, which caused the deaths of two adults and two infants

Following a massive global vaccination campaign, the death of children due to measles has dropped by 60 percent, the World Health Organization announced Friday.

The study, which is published in the British medical journal The Lancet, estimates that the number of measles deaths fell from 873,000 in 1999 to 345,000 in 2005, due to increased immunization campaigns. The World Health Organization revealed that more than 360 million children aged 9 months to 15 years were vaccinated against measles during that period