The latest outbreak is concentrated in South Carolina, where large school districts have lagged in vaccine uptake.

Despite a growing number of kids getting religious exemptions from required school vaccinations, Maryland still vaccinates a higher percentage of students than the national average. (Photo by Michael ...

A record share of U.S. kindergartners had an exemption for a required vaccination last school year, and coverage for all reported vaccines – including the measles vaccine – was lower than the year ...

In 1987, about 150 Massachusetts kindergartners received religious exemptions, allowing them to not get one or more vaccines.

TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) -- Lawmakers in New Jersey have moved forward on a bill making it harder to get religious exemptions for required immunizations. The State Assembly approved the bill late last ...

Officials overseeing West Virginia’s public charter school system plan to advise the schools to accept exemptions to mandatory vaccination policies on religious grounds if they’re approved by state ...

While the lower court’s summary judgment found that Jeune “failed to articulate a sincerely held religious belief that precluded her from getting vaccinated ... said it reviewed religious exemption ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The lawyer representing the three nurses in court in Lower Manhattan just got a temporary restraining order for his clients, two nurses at Syosset Hospital and a third in Syracuse.