Opinion

The anti–public health agenda and the resurgence of measles in America

The measles outbreak in South Carolina exposes the social and political roots of vaccine refusal and the broader assault on public health institutions in the United States.
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Canada is poised to lose its measles elimination status. The US could, too

Monday marks a full year of continuous measles transmission in Canada, a milestone that’s poised to set the country back decades on a global health commitment. Ongoing transmission in the United ...
Medscape

What Doctors in Measles Outbreak Zones Want You to Know

On a typical busy day at the Seminole Family Medical Clinic in Seminole, Texas (population, 7386), Leila Myrick, MD, PhD — who’d moved to the rural town 5 years earlier after graduating from Emory ...

Arizona-Utah measles outbreak grows to more than 200 cases

An outbreak of measles on the Arizona-Utah border continues to grow, with the latest data showing 201 cases and eight hospitalizations.
NBC Washington

First measles death reported in Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people

A person who was hospitalized with measles has died in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa ...