Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000

Neighboring states are also reporting hundreds of cases, with over 3,800 recorded across the country

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/05/pennsylvania-measles-outbreak-hospitalizations-deaths

 

Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’

Meanwhile, the outbreak “seems to be accelerating”, said Dr John Goldman, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “And we’re seeing, actually, types of measles we’ve never seen before,” he added. 

Doctors are now treating congenital measles – newborns who contracted the virus in utero or at birth – which was once exceedingly rare because most pregnant people were protected by vaccines or, before immunization, surviving measles in childhood… 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/22/cdc-pennsylvania-measles-death-outbreak 

Pennsylvania reports apparent third measles-related death amid outbreak

Jefferson county coroner says 40-year-old woman died on Saturday, while two infants died with disease in August…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/13/pennsylvania-third-measles-death-outbreak

 

State's top health official says vaccine waiver trend risks disease outbreaks in schools

"We as a society, we've forgotten how devastating these illness are," she said. "I just want to remind people that these diseases are not minor inconveniences. Mumps, we know, can make someone infertile for life. Measles — people can die from measles, they can end up with hearing loss from measles."…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-09-04/states-top-health-official-says-vaccine-waiver-trend-risks-disease-outbreaks-in-schools

 

US officials focus on identification and rapid action as measles cases rise

Attitudes toward vaccines have changed in a couple of different ways, he said. The idea of a link between autism and vaccination, now disproved by multiple studies, proved to be “horrible misinformation” that “created a lot of confusion for people”, Rosenbaum said. Some parents also began trying to create their own vaccination schedule out of the belief that children receive too many vaccines – a view frequently espoused by Donald Trump...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/us-measles-cases-outbreak

 

US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say

Outbreaks like these have economic, geopolitical and global stability implications, Kavanagh said. But they also matter because allowing anyone to die “needlessly of a disease that can be stopped is immoral, and we are living in a world where we don’t have to allow infectious diseases to spread unchecked”, he said. “Ebola can be stopped, and if we don’t mobilize the dollars and the public health efforts, then we are simply choosing not to stop the outbreak. Because it can be stopped. The question is, will it be? And when?”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/ebola-outbreak-public-health

 

US battles major measles outbreak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41JabapebNo

 

Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak

Emails sent by staff at the US embassy and the United Nations provide, for the first time, an inside look at how Kennedy's trip came about and include contemporaneous accounts suggesting his concerns about vaccine safety motivated the visit. 

The documents have prompted concerns from at least one US senator that the lawyer and activist now leading America's health policy lied to Congress over the visit…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/rfk-jr-samoa-trip

 

HHS Wasn’t Worried About South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak. It’s Now Enormous. – Mother Jones

"CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/hhs-rfk-south-carolina-measles-outbreak/ 

 

The return of measles: how a once-vanquished disease is spreading again

"Measles is a bellwether," said James Alwine, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a virologist, and a member of the coordinating committee of Defend Public Health. "It means that your vaccination level is so low that all the other vaccine-preventable diseases will come up with time."…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/21/measles-outbreak-new-cases-us?

 

Why You Should Also Worry About Whooping Cough Amid Measles Outbreak — ProPublica

"My concern is that there is going to be a large outbreak of not just measles, but other vaccine-preventable diseases as well, that's going to end up causing a lot of harm, and possibly deaths in children and young adults," said Dr. Anna Durbin, a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who has spent her career studying vaccines. "And it's completely preventable."

https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump 

 

Measles outbreak in Texas is growing. This is not normal. #viral #outbre...

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Measles outbreak spreads in rural Texas

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zGHjxSi8vfM

In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight

Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized. All are unvaccinated against measles, which is one of the most contagious viruses in the world...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-west-texas-grows-unvaccinated-rcna192163

Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science | Florida | The Guardian

The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/03/florida-measles-outbreak-preventable

“Quacks” blamed for HIV outbreak that infected hundreds of kids - Ars Technica

Local health officials say cheap charlatans are likely using contaminated equipment.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/quacks-blamed-for-hiv-outbreak-that-infected-hundreds-of-kids/