U.S. health officials are looking for an answer as eight states are suffering from an outbreak of the mumps.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) says Iowa alone has seen over 600 suspected cases since December, and other states, including Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin are all reporting patients with the virus

Two infected airline passengers may have helped spread Iowa's mumps epidemic to six other Midwestern states, health officials said Wednesday.

"These people may have exposed other people on those planes or in these airports," said Kevin Teale, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Public Health

Alicia Keys travels to Africa to see firsthand the work she's funded with Keep a Child Alive, a charitable organization committed to supporting HIV patients.

The program, which helps an estimated 400 children, if funded by the Grammy award winning singer, as well as Oprah Winfrey

The U.K. reports its first case of a measles-related death in 14 years.

According to BBC Health, a string of outbreaks mainly in England and Wales's traveling communities has led to 100 cases so far in 2006, compared with 76 in 2005

A 13 year old boy is the first person in the UK to die from measles in over a decade.

The Health Protection Agency says the victim was from a traveling family living in the northwest of England at the time