They began to collect throat swabs from patients. They took a sample from the mouth of 11-year-old schoolboy David Edmonston ...
Texas’ largest outbreak of measles in 30 years has reached 90 cases, the Texas Department of State Health Services said ...
Overall, unvaccinated children are at the greatest risk for measles, according to the CDC. The CDC currently recommends two ...
The last major outbreak of measles in the U.S. occurred six years ... according to the CDC. In the 2023–2024 school year, more than three-quarters of states had kindergartener MMR (measles ...
Wisconsin has not reported a measles case since April 2024, though vaccination rates for the disease are lagging.
You can contract measles simply by being in the same room with someone who has it, even after they leave,” Dr. Griffin said.
The number of measles cases in the rural West Texas outbreak has grown to 90 across seven counties, with 16 people hospitalized.
Donald G. McNeil Jr., a former New York Times global health reporter, is author of “The Wisdom of Plagues.” Given how much ...