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Measles Outbreak Spreads to Florida High School Student

Wed, 2025-03-05 09:25 — mike kraft

Measles outbreak spreads to Florida A student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School has been diagnosed with the disease. Newsweek

Florida has recorded its first measles case of the year amid an outbreak in states across the country.

A student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest has been diagnosed with the disease, according to an email seen by CBS News Miami.

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Analysis: Public health efforts nationwide hurt by CDC firings

Tue, 2025-03-04 11:02 — mike kraft

CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington | CNN The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. CNN

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U.S. vaccination rates are declining as more states loosen mandates

Tue, 2025-03-04 09:52 — mike kraft

Vaccination rates are declining and might get worse as states relax rules More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates—even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas. Shalina Chatlani Medical Xpress

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Texas measles outbreak fueled by distrust in public health and personal choice

Tue, 2025-03-04 09:40 — mike kraft

West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died. AP News

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Measles cases reported in 9 U.S. states as outbreaks spread

Tue, 2025-03-04 09:29 — mike kraft

9 states report measles cases as outbreaks grow One of the most contagious viruses in the world is spreading around the United States. So far in 2025 there have been three distinct measles outbreaks and at least 164 cases reported to the Centers… amartichoux The Hill

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Health Secretary RFK, JR, a vaccine skeptic, backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak

Mon, 2025-03-03 10:04 — mike kraft

Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, is voicing support for the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, mainly in Texas. CBS News

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Measles: Texas officials say little despite biggest measles outbreak in years

Fri, 2025-02-28 09:53 — mike kraft

Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping Texas’ measles response. By Eleanor Klibanoff, Pooja Salhotra, Terri Langford and Jayme Lozano Carver The Texas Tribune

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Measles spread to more states; doctors dispute RFK Jr's claims that outbreaks not unusual

Fri, 2025-02-28 09:13 — mike kraft

Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas More measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas. ABC News ABC News

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Measles: Texas child dies, first reported US measles death in a decade

Thu, 2025-02-27 09:59 — mike kraft

Texas child is first reported US measles death in a decade as outbreak hits more than 130

Feb 26 (Reuters) - A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states.

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Increased efforts seen in some U.S. state legislatures against vaccines and for ivermectin

Mon, 2025-02-24 09:47 — mike kraft

Moving the needle state by state. Legislative activity in the medical freedom movement picks up. Mary Talley Bowden MD

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