Category: Measles
Tracking County-Level Measles Cases in the US
JAMA Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, more than 90% of US residents were infected with the measles virus before the age of 15 years, with the 3 million to 4 million annual cases of measles resulting in approximately 48 000 hospitalizations.1 After the licensure of the first measles vaccine in 1963, national efforts to […]
Sep 17, 2025
Are You Ready for Measles’ Wrath?
Med Page Today Going forward, expect the unexpected. Not all patients will be children. Paul Natterson, MD, was very sick — and scared. One day, the 26-year-old intern was seeing patients at a county hospital and attending a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The next morning, he was so fatigued he could barely walk. High […]
Sep 10, 2025
Colorado sees worst measles year in 3 decades after an additional 5 cases are confirmed in Mesa County
ABC News Denver Denver7 is continuing to inform the community about additional exposures in the Grand Junction area over the Labor Day weekend. Colorado is experiencing the worst measles year in three decades after five additional cases of the highly contagious virus were confirmed in Mesa County over the Labor Day weekend. The Colorado Department […]
Sep 3, 2025
RFK Jr boasts of handling of US measles outbreak in op-ed amid CDC upheaval
Guardian HHS secretary failed to respond to critics in editorial amid growing calls for him to resign and chaos across the agency. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended his response to the largest measles outbreak in the US in 33 years in a new editorial, calling […]
Sep 3, 2025
A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar Back
NYT To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. Few expected a major return of measles to the United States this year, a quarter-century after it was declared eliminated here. But return it has, with more than 1,300 confirmed cases this […]
Aug 27, 2025
What We’ve Learned from the Texas Measles Outbreak
Time Texas health officials on Aug. 18 declared the end of a measles outbreak that had sickened more than 760 people across the state and killed two children. Doctors and public-health officials involved in the outbreak, most of whom had previously never encountered a measles patient, are now taking stock of what they’ve learned about the virus […]
Aug 27, 2025
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered.
KFF As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration’s actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency’s most critical function — emergency response — when it mattered most, an investigation from KFF Health News shows. The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has […]
Aug 27, 2025
A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar Back
NYT To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia. Few expected a major return of measles to the United States this year, a quarter-century after it was declared eliminated here. But return it has, with more than 1,300 confirmed cases this […]
Aug 20, 2025
The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Over, Officials Say
NYT The larger outbreak, which spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma, is still ongoing. The measles outbreak in West Texas, which hospitalized nearly a hundred and killed two young children, is officially over, state health officials announced in a news release Monday. Officials declare an outbreak over after no new cases have been reported for […]
Aug 20, 2025
Measles outbreak in US prompts questions over Robert F Kennedy Junior’s mixed messages on vaccination
ABC (Australia) US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has regularly told Americans they should not take medical advice from him. “My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” he told Congress in May. But under his watch a vaccine-preventable disease has continued to spread, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states. The measles outbreak that […]
Aug 13, 2025