The outbreak has infected 50,000 people and killed 300, most of them children, since cases began to crop up in October 2018.

Most of the 34 patients are under 10 years old, and almost all have been confirmed as unvaccinated against the virus.

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2018 issue of The Scientist.

In a new book, a vaccine researcher describes the scientific facts and personal anecdotes behind his family’s experience with autism and its comorbid disabilities.

Advances in microbiome research are increasingly used in anti-vaccination arguments, yet the science actually undermines the premise of the argument.

Scientists criticize unconfirmed reports that President-elect Donald Trump has asked Robert Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, to investigate vaccine safety.

Oncologists have raised concerns about a mouse study that suggests the vaccine for human papillomavirus could cause brain damage.

As Inauguration Day nears, scientists and science advocates are voicing their unease with the Trump Administration’s potential effects on research.

This one will be largely based on the discredited anti-vaccine researcher’s 2010 book.