More than two decades ago, measles—a highly contagious and potentially deadly childhood disease—was declared eliminated in the United States. So far in 2025, multiple measles outbreaks have been identified across the ...
Mar 4, 2025
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A Texas health official is warning against "measles parties" as an outbreak grows in West Texas, resulting in the death of at least one unvaccinated school-aged child.
Mar 4, 2025
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Upcoming spring break trips will give the current measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico a chance to grow, making it particularly important for people who are behind on their shots to catch up now, Colorado's state epidemiologist ...
Mar 4, 2025
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On Feb. 26, 2025, Texas health officials announced the death of a child in a measles outbreak—the first measles death in the United States since 2015. The outbreak was first identified in early February in Gaines County, ...
Mar 3, 2025
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A patient who came to a hospital emergency room in Montgomery County is Pennsylvania's first confirmed measles case this year amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus, according to health officials.
Mar 3, 2025
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As the measles outbreak in Texas spreads, attention is turning to what is commonly called the MMR vaccine.
Mar 3, 2025
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The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday.
Feb 28, 2025
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Five-year-old Shado is one of dozens of children being rushed to a health center in the US state of Texas to get the measles vaccine, after the recent death in the area of a child who was not immunized against the highly ...
Feb 28, 2025
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A new outbreak of measles has taken hold in Texas beginning at the end of January, when two cases were diagnosed in Harris County. The cases were the first in that state since 2023. Now, a little more than a month later, ...
Feb 27, 2025
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Measles is not often seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.
Feb 27, 2025
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