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Vaccine Hesitancy Is on the Rise. Who Do Americans Trust to Help Them Make Important Vaccine Decisions? A New HealthDay/Harris Poll
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, of the Yale School of Medicine talks with Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of the Baylor School of Medicine about the rise in vaccine refusal and the backlash against scientists.
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Measles virus popped up in Houston wastewater weeks before a notorious Texas outbreak of the highly infectious disease started in January, a new study says.
Wastewater samples collected Jan. 7 contained genetic evidence of measles virus, researchers reported in th...
The United States is now experiencing its largest measles outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, federal scientists confirmed this week.
At least 800 measles cases have been reported nationwide this year, and experts suspect the number is even higher, The New York Times reported.
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico are seeing the most cases, with Texas...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has canceled its plans to help Texas schools stop the rapid spread of measles.
The decision came after some CDC staff involved in this year’s outbreak response were told they might lose their jobs, according to an agency employee.
CDC staff had planned to expand their work in Texas by offering on-site ventilation ...
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- April 21, 2025
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends extra measles protection for people traveling to areas with active outbreaks in the United States, CBS News reported.
In an April 8 letter, the CDC advised health departments that tr...
The death of a second child in a fast-growing U.S. measles outbreak brought the nation's top health official to Texas this weekend.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral of an 8-year-old girl who died of lung failure caused by
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COVID-19 and influenza burned through the U.S. during this year’s cold and flu season, and deadly measles outbreaks have sickened people in 19 states.
So what does it take to get people vaccinated against these preventable diseases?
Essentially, an outbreak within a person’s own com...
As a measles outbreak spreads across U.S., doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: Children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A.
At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, several unvaccinated children showed signs of liver problems after taking large amounts of vitamin A, according to
A growing measles outbreak has led to 222 reported cases across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma in 2025, with health officials urging more people to get vaccinated.
During an interview with Fox News, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Ro...
A measles outbreak in Texas has grown to 159 cases, and now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sent a team to help local health officials respond.
The CDC announced the plan on X, explaining that its Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is working closely with the Texas Department of State Health ...
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- March 5, 2025
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Hesitancy over the COVID-19 vaccine is leading some parents to skip important vaccinations for their children.
Young children of parents who declined the COVID vaccine are about 25% less likely to get the standard measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, researchers reported in a new study published recently in the A...
Waning vaccine coverage has fueled a 20% spike in measles cases worldwide, with 10.3 million people struck by the preventable illness in 2023, health officials reported Wednesday.
"Inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases," of what was once a common childhood disease, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
In yet another sign that childhood vaccinations can't be taken for granted, new government data shows that a record number of kindergartners were exempted from the required shots during the last school year.
That leaves more than 125,000 new students without the protection of at least one childhood vaccine, even as measles vaccination rates among kindergartners have already fallen below ...
In findings that offer compelling evidence of the power of childhood vaccines, a new government report shows the routine shots have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among Americans born in the past 30 years.
The new data, published Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Dise...
With five months still to go, the number of U.S. measles cases reported so far this year already triple that of all the cases seen in the country last year, federal health officials report.
A total of 188 cases have been confirmed in 26 states and Washington, D.C., new data released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease C...
Babies born by C-section are unlikely to receive protection from a single dose of measles vaccine, a new study finds.
A single measles jab is up to 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in C-section babies, compared to those born vaginally. Their immu...
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- May 14, 2024
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Measles infections continue to spread across the country, with 125 cases now reported in 18 states, new U.S. government data shows.
That is more cases than were reported in all of 2022, the most recent annual peak for measles infections, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention rep...
More than 100 measles cases have already been reported in the United States this year, a significant increase over previous years that threatens the country's attempts to eliminate the illness, federal health officials warned Thursday.
A total of 338 measles cases were diagnosed in the United States from January 2020 through March 2024, with 97 of those cases reported in 2024 alone, a n...
Two of America's leading health organizations are highlighting a global rise in measles cases as yet another reason for families to make sure they get the measles vaccine.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Association (wh...
As millions of Americans prepare to travel abroad this summer and measles outbreaks increase worldwide, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tightened its guidance on how travelers should handle the potential health threat.
Americans planning to fly to other countries should consult their doctors at least six weeks before they leave, if they are unsure ...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- March 18, 2024
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As the number of measles cases at a migrant shelter in Chicago climbed to four on Monday, a team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has headed to that city to help contain the outbreak.
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH)
As new outbreaks of measles -- a once nearly eliminated illness in the United States -- continue to emerge, experts remind Americans that there's an easy way to stop infection: Get vaccinated.
"Measles spreads so easily that if one person has it, 90% of the people close to that person who are not vaccinated or otherwise immune will also become infected," the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...
Once thought to be a bygone disease, measles is making a comeback in the United States and globally as folks shun a safe, surefire way to prevent it: The measles vaccine.
But what is measles, and how easily does it spread? Drs. Aaron Milstone and
Amid an outbreak of measles at a Florida elementary school, the state's surgeon general has defied federal health guidance and told parents it's up to them whether they want to keep their unvaccinated child home to avoid infection.
In a letter to parents of children attendin...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 23, 2024
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Measles cases around the globe have climbed 79%, with over 300,000 cases reported last year, World Health Organization officials said Tuesday.
The U.N. health agency said it did not yet have a tally for measles deaths in 2023, but it expects that number will also rise.
"In 2022, the number of deaths increased by 43%, according to our models, to more than 130,000 deaths occurring fro...
Measles is incredibly contagious, and outbreaks are more common now as people decide against vaccinating their kids.
Now, a case involving a rare but fatal brain disease caused by the measles virus may make some rethink that decision.
The patient caught measles as a child. It took years for the virus to migrate to their brain, where it mutated and caused the fatal illness, according...
Measles deaths are surging worldwide, prompted by a wave of infections among unvaccinated children, public health experts say.
Deaths from measles increased by 43% globally in 2022 compared to the year before, resulting from an 18% increase in measles cases, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say in a new report published Thursday.
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A central Ohio measles outbreak among children who were not fully vaccinated is now over, public health officials announced Saturday.
Columbus Health declared the outbreak finished with no new cases after a period of 42 days -- the equivalent of two measles virus incubation periods.
In all, ...
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- February 6, 2023
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Vaccinations among kindergarteners declined for the second year in a row, leaving hundreds of thousands of young children vulnerable to dangerous infectious diseases, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
About 93% of kindergarteners had their required vaccinations during the 2021-2022 school year, including the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR), diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis, polio and chick...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 12, 2023
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A measles outbreak in central Ohio has now infected at least 82 children.
Most of those impacted by the outbreak have been under the age of 5, state officials reported. Since details of the first measles cases were announced last month by Columbus Public H...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- December 30, 2022
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The pandemic's focus on vaccines may have had a big downside: While kids have long been required to get certain shots to attend public school, a growing number of their parents now oppose these requirements, a new poll finds.
About 35% of parents now say childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella should not be mandatory, up from 23% in 2019. Overall, 28% of adults nationwide say pa...
Roughly 25 million children around the world missed critical vaccinations during 2021, as the pandemic continued to disrupt routine medical care, a new report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF shows.
"This is a red alert for child health. We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immu...
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- July 15, 2022
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Many kindergartners fell behind on their childhood vaccinations during the pandemic, U.S. health officials warned Thursday.
The drop has not been precipitous: About 94% of kindergarteners had their required vaccines during the 2020-2021 school year, a drop of about one percentage point and just below the 95% vaccination target, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a...
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- By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- April 22, 2022
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The world faces an increased risk of a measles outbreak because 22 million infants did not get their measles shots last year due to the pandemic, the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Wednesday.
They said that 3 million fewer infants were vaccinated against measles in 2020 than in 2019, and just 70% of infants received both doses of the t...
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- November 11, 2021
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