At a rural clinic near the heart of the outbreak, physicians describe patients arriving gravely ill, while federal officials dispute the death toll.

Amid a measles outbreak centered on Lancaster County, where low vaccination rates among Amish communities stems partially ...

The author of several books about the Amish and other Anabaptist groups, Donald B. Kraybill is a Senior Fellow at the Young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennsylvania is home to thousands of Amish, who avoid many aspects of modern life [Getty Images] For the past few months, nurse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brittany Nicole Sponenberg's son was born prematurely. Last week, the hospital told her he'd been exposed to measles in their ...

The spread of measles in Pennsylvania and Ohio is largely affecting Amish communities where vaccinations levels are low. By Anemona Hartocollis Photographs by Madeleine Hordinski Anemona Hartocollis ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther west, researchers said. “It is growing fast,” said Kyle Kopko, an Amish ...

And then another thought occurred to me. The Amish are one of America’s most important control groups. For generations, ...

More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health since the outbreak started in April, surpassing recent record-breaking outbreaks – in Texas and South Carolina ...