Category: Measles
California reports largest measles outbreak in 5 years
SF Gate Seventeen cases of measles have been reported across California since the start of 2026, including the state’s first outbreak of the highly contagious virus since 2020. The California Department of Public Health issued a health alert on Monday, warning residents of the ongoing transmission as cases emerge across multiple counties. Eight of those cases are part of […]
Feb 11, 2026
In Mexico, at least 28 have died from measles outbreak that started 2025
Reuters Mexican Health Minister David Kershenobich said on Wednesday that at least 28 people in the country have died from the measles outbreak that began in 2025. Authorities have registered 9,074 cases so far, official data given during the president’s morning press conference showed. Mexico has 28 million measles vaccines to distribute, which President Claudia […]
Feb 11, 2026
DC health officials warn of measles exposures across city, including March for Life rally
ABC News Health officials in Washington, D.C., are warning that people may have been exposed to measles in locations across the city. DC Health said in a statement that it “was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious.” Among those locations is the annual National March for […]
Feb 11, 2026
4 times as many measles cases in a few weeks than US typically averages in a whole year
ABC News There have been at least 733 confirmed measles cases reported across the nation, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Friday. In just a few weeks, the United States reported four times as many cases than typically seen throughout an entire calendar year, the CDC said. Before last year, which had […]
Feb 11, 2026
Measles in America: Five things to know from a Stanford Medicine expert
Stanford Medicine The U.S. measles surge is a sign that more vaccination is needed, said a Stanford Medicine pediatric infectious disease physician. Here’s what else she wants you to know. After a sustained surge of measles outbreaks last year, the United States is likely to lose its status as a country that has eliminated the […]
Jan 28, 2026
South Carolina Measles Outbreak Becomes Largest In U.S. History Since First Elimination
Forbes South Carolina’s growing measles outbreak is now the largest in United States history since the contagious viral disease was declared eliminated more than two decades ago in the wake of widespread vaccinations, according to a report from CNN. Big Number 88%. That’s the proportion of measles cases in South Carolina that have appeared in unvaccinated individuals, according […]
Jan 28, 2026
South Carolina Is America’s New Measles Norm
The Atlantic The state’s measles outbreak could soon be bigger than West Texas’s. Are the two connected? Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three decades, when an epidemic centered on West Texas sickened at least 762 people. Now a fast-moving outbreak in South Carolina […]
Jan 28, 2026
6 European countries lose measles elimination status: What this means
Medical News Today The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the United Kingdom and other European countries have lost their measles elimination status. This status change comes after a rise in infections across the continent. “Outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases are threats to health security in Europe, alongside antimicrobial resistance and other emerging threats,” […]
Jan 28, 2026
UK loses measles elimination status
Guardian The UK has lost its status as a measles-free country after a rise in deaths from the disease and fall in the proportion of children having the MMR jab in recent years. The World Health Organization said it no longer classified Britain as having eliminated measles because the disease had become re-established. The UK is one of six […]
Jan 28, 2026
Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’
STAT With measles transmission in the United States at levels that haven’t been seen in decades, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would not view the loss of the country’s measles elimination status as a significant event. “Not really,” said Ralph Abraham, a physician who formerly […]
Jan 21, 2026