| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Why I 'cocoon' my children | | Whooping cough commonly kills newborns but can be prevented through vaccination and avoiding infected individuals. Measles, which made the headlines recently with a large outbreak traced to Disneyland, is also deadly and similarly preventable with vaccination. But people are not vaccinating as they should be. While it's a matter of personal choice, it's also a serious matter of public health, and these preventable and deadly diseases are roaring back to life. |
| Mom: Family without vaccines put my baby at risk | | It's an unseasonably warm day in Oakland, California, a perfect morning for Jennifer and Dave Simon to take their baby, Livia, out for a walk. But her stroller sits idle, and Livia is stuck inside the house -- as she has been for nearly a month. |
| Heed the lesson from Disneyland measles outbreak | | For many kids, a trip to Disneyland is a dream come true. But for some of those kids and their families who visited "the happiest place on Earth" a few weeks ago, that dream has become a nightmare. In the past month, 36 people have come down with measles traced to an exposure at the theme park, including five employees of Disneyland. |
| Why measles won't take down the Maasai | | "They are happy because [there's] no disease for them and no children get sick," explains 52-year-old Jacob Mmali referring to the two elders from his village who stand beside him. The three Maasai men are from the indigenous tribe of the same name and reside in the small village of Enguiki, in the region of Arusha in North-Eastern Tanzania. Diseases such as measles once plagued their community. But not anymore. |
| 5 things to know about measles | | Each year, on average, about 60 people in the United States are reported to have measles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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