Measles

Zimbabwe’s latest outbreak of measles — an infectious viral disease that typically occurs during childhood — has killed at least 157 children in the country in recent weeks and caused more than 2,000 cases of the disease nationwide, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.

Germany’s pro-forced vaccination health minister has expressed concerns regarding the number of unjabbed Ukrainian refugees entering the country.

President Joe Biden has restarted flying thousands of Afghans to the United States, through the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, after flights had been halted due to a measles outbreak by Afghans on multiple U.S. military bases. 

Only a “few” Afghans awaiting entry to the United States, as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation, have their vaccination records, CNN reports. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been silent as a measles case reportedly broke out at Fort McCoy where thousands of Afghans are living as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation. 

Dozens of children have died as a result of the ongoing measles epidemic in Samoa, prompting a shutdown of the entire government, with all public servants enlisted to help implement the country’s mass vaccination campaign. 

The parents of a one-year-old girl who died after receiving a Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in Havana last month fled the country, they revealed on Wednesday, after Cuban police threatened to arrest them if they kept publicly demanding answers.

A cleric who took a bus 125 miles south within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tested positive for Ebola upon arriving in Goma, a city of one million on the border with Rwanda, on Sunday.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has led to a measles outbreak of “unimaginable proportions,” a research vaccinologist at the University of Cape Town warned this week.

The CDC’s most recent reporting reveals 1,044 cases of measles in 28 U.S. states — the highest rate of infection since 1992.

Actress Jessica Biel has become the latest celebrity to join the anti-vaccination campaign by lobbying California lawmakers to oppose a bill that would limit medical exemptions for immunizations without approval from a public health officer.

Villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reportedly killed a health worker over the weekend who was deployed to combat the African country’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic, and they pillaged the local treatment center where the medic worked.

An unnamed woman from Placentia, California, may have exposed attendees of Thursday’s Avengers: Endgame midnight premiere to measles.

Health officials on St. Lucia island have quarantined a cruise ship anchored there after reports that a passenger had the measles.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”

The current measles outbreak in the United States is so widespread the country could lose its “measles free” status in the coming months.

As the number of measles cases reported reaches the highest number since the highly contagious disease was eliminated in the United States in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are speaking out about the need for people to use the safe and effective vaccine to end the outbreak.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 626 cases of measles had been reported in 22 states.

One case of measles has struck Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, adding to the overall increase of measles outbreaks being reported since the beginning of 2019. So far, there have been more reports of measles in the first three months of 2019 than in all of 2018, despite the disease having been officially eradicated in the United States in 2000.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge say the measles outbreak is a threat to national security.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Monday that 555 cases of measles have been confirmed in 20 states.

The CDC reports more measles cases have been documented in the first three months of 2019 than in all of 2018.

Passengers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) may have been exposed to measles, health officials announced Tuesday.

The United Nations reported on Wednesday that a measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed at least a hundred children since the beginning of the year, adding to a medical and security crisis that already included Ebola, cholera, and factional violence that makes it difficult for doctors to treat any of the deadly diseases.

Measles outbreaks have caused a renewed interest in vaccinations, including among teens whose family opposed them when they were children.

The Georgia Department of Public Health (GPH) has confirmed three cases of measles in the metro Atlanta area. Two were identified on January 13 and one on January 26. All three cases were for individuals who were members of the same family and were not vaccinated, according to GPH.

Health officials warned travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport on Christmas Eve that they may have been in contact with a passenger who had measles.

An analysis of World Health Organization data shows measles breaking 60,000 cases in 2018 — with twice as many deaths.

The number of measles-related deaths fell 80 percent between 2000 and 2017 and it had been hoped that measles might eventually be entirely eliminated. But the number of reported cases of measles surged by more than 30 percent from 2016 to 2017.

Many children in Indonesia are missing out on crucial vaccines because of a “vaccine fatwa” imposed by power Islamic clerics, Science Magazine reported on Thursday. 

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston fired a nurse Tuesday for posting medical information about a toddler who tested positive for measles on a Facebook anti-vaccination page.

Up to 57,000 children whose parents who opted out of school vaccinations could fuel an outbreak of measles in Texas, according to a Baylor College of Medicine dean. The numbers of non-vaccinated children is 20 percent higher than a report from 2003.

Measles is a highly contagious virus, inflicting high fevers, cough, runny nose, and eye inflammation. Still, its most characteristic symptom is the rash that spreads from the hairline down across the entirety of the body.

A sick passenger arriving on an international flight last Wednesday may have exposed hundreds of travelers at Chicago O’Hare Airport to measles.

The Minnesota Department of Health reported a total of 75 confirmed cases, five more than were confirmed in the entire country in all of 2016.

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported on Monday that the number of confirmed measles cases in the outbreak that began in April has increased to 69.