Measles

A high school student in Florida is reportedly the first in the state this year to come down with the measles. 

Measles cases have been reported in Kentucky and New Jersey as an outbreak of the disease occurred recently in west Texas.

The first U.S. measles death since 2015 has been reported in West Texas, as an outbreak that began late last month continues to grow. 

Reports indicate the Trump administration plans to resume expulsions under the Centers for Disease Control’s Title 42 authority. The measure, first used by the Trump administration to combat COVID-19, allowed immigration officials to summarily expel migrants within minutes of an illegal entry to reduce the spread of the contagion.

A measles outbreak is affecting school-aged children in Texas and several of those patients have been hospitalized.

Health officials in Washington are warning the public of a case of measles that was confirmed in a traveler returning from Europe.

A report from the CDC has linked 84 percent of Chicago’s recent cases of measles back to the wave of illegal aliens from Venezuela.

Chicago has been slammed with nearly as many cases of measles in its migrant shelters this year than the whole country had in 2023.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning on Monday amid an uptick of measles cases — both globally and domestically.

Officials in Chicago have been struck with a third case of measles found in an illegal alien staying in one of the Windy City’s shelters.

Health authorities in Chicago, Illinois, reported a second case of measles in the city Friday, this time in the same migrant shelter where a five-year-old boy died in December.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration is defying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advice about the state’s growing measles outbreak, prompting health officials to call for more vaccinations and quarantining.

A Florida public school district has confirmed its sixth case of measles as health officials warn of an outbreak.

Health officials urged millions of parents to book in their children amid lowest vaccination rates in a decade.

Close to 20,000 migrant children are expected to be absorbed by New York City’s public schools when the school year starts in just days. None of those migrant children will be required to show proof of vaccinations when they enroll, as is required for the children of New Yorkers.

A study published on Thursday by the United Nation’s children’s agency UNICEF found a dramatic global decline in public support for childhood vaccination in the years of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Uganda’s independent Nile Post on Monday reported the “worrying development” that parents are hiding their children to keep health officials from discovering they have contracted measles.

A measles outbreak in central Ohio has infected at least 82 children, including 32 who have been hospitalized, according to Columbus Public Health (CPH).

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.

The W.H.O. and UNICEF announced that a “perfect storm” of conditions could lead to a measles outbreak as vaccine campaigns have stalled.

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. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Friday that evacuation flights of Afghan refugees were temporarily halted after four diagnosed cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who recently arrived in the United States.

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.

Following the largest measles outbreak in the U.S.since 1992, some 50,000 unvaccinated children are heading back to school in Wisconsin.

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.”