Chiron Corp. is recalling and withdrawing nearly 5.5 million doses of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine available in developing countries and Italy.

The California-based biotechnology company issued the recall as a precaution after reports of a higher rate of adverse reactions when compared to other vaccines. These include fever, allergic reactions and glandular swelling

New figures reveal that the number of people dying of measles across the world is dropping at a staggering rate. The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund revealed deaths fell from 871,000 in 1999 to 454,000 in 2004.

BBC notes the largest reduction occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, which had been hardest hit by the disease, where cases and deaths dropped by 60-percent

Health workers spread out across Bangladesh Saturday in what has been called the world's biggest measles vaccination program ever.

At least 800,000 workers planned to visit vaccination centers set up across the country. The goal is to reach children in remote island regions and shanty towns. Seventy percent of infants in this region received the vaccination during routine health visits

The United Nations children's organization, UNICEF, is set to launch the largest measles vaccination campaign ever.

UNICEF and local health officials have prepared 40-million doses to immunize more than 33-million children in Bangladesh

A new study reveals more American children died of the flu in the 2003-2004 season than of chicken pox, whooping cough, and measles combined.

The study, led by Niranjan Bhat and Jennifer Wright of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finds of the 153 children killed by flu in that winter, nearly two-thirds were under age five. The highest death rate being among infants under 6 months