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US measles resurgence and loss of elimination status, tied to falling vaccination rates and RFK Jr.'s influence on federal policy
Michigan has shifted away from requiring parents to attend in-person vaccine education sessions before obtaining school immunization waivers, adopting a hybrid online process as the state faces a measles outbreak and a record-high rate of…
3 MIN READSouth Carolina health officials declared the state’s measles outbreak over after it passed 42 days with no new outbreak-related cases, with 997 people reported sickened since October. The officials said 21 people were hospitalized, and…
3 MIN READHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Friday that the United States is controlling measles outbreaks better than any other country in the world. According to an AP fact-check, that claim is not supported by evidence. Other…
3 MIN READA large immigration detention camp on Fort Bliss in Texas known as Camp East Montana has been closed to visitors and attorneys due to a measles outbreak, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said. Escobar said there were 14 active measles cases at…
3 MIN READU.S. health official Mehmet Oz urged people to get vaccinated against measles as outbreaks have been reported in multiple states, warning the country risks losing measles elimination status. Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare…
3 MIN READNewly obtained emails have raised questions about what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators about a 2019 trip to Samoa before a measles outbreak there, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. During Senate confirmation hearings for…
3 MIN READPublic health officials and community leaders in Minneapolis say measles vaccination outreach is faltering in Minnesota’s Somali community as fears linked to a federal immigration crackdown and vaccine misinformation collide. They warn the…
3 MIN READMexico reported the highest measles case numbers as the Pan American Health Organization issued an epidemiological alert for the Americas, citing a surge that has largely hit people who are not vaccinated. In the first three weeks of 2026,…
4 MIN READInternational health authorities are set to review whether the United States has lost its measles elimination status, with a decision planned for April 13, according to the Associated Press. The review comes amid renewed measles activity…
3 MIN READInternational health authorities announced they will meet April 13 to determine whether the United States has lost its measles elimination status, a certification granted in 2000 that appears in jeopardy following a year-long outbreak that…
7 MIN READSouth Carolina health officials reported 124 new measles cases since Tuesday, bringing the state’s total to 558. The cases represent a sharp rise centered on an outbreak in Spartanburg County.
3 MIN READSouth Carolina health officials said Friday that the state's measles caseload had jumped almost 30% in four days, reaching 558 total infections in what has become the worst active measles outbreak in the United States. The state health…
3 MIN READPublic health officials can sometimes detect measles infections through wastewater testing days to months before individual cases are confirmed by doctors, according to two studies published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings highlight how wastewater surveillance can act as an early-warning tool for measles outbreaks in Colorado and Oregon, even as the national program faces a potential funding cut.
Two studies published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that wastewater surveillance detected measles outbreaks weeks to months before clinical diagnoses in Colorado and Oregon, adding to evidence that sewer testing is a powerful early-warning tool for public health officials — findings that arrive as a Trump administration budget proposal would cut the national program's funding by roughly 80 percent.
The South Carolina measles outbreak has grown to 789 confirmed cases since September, health officials said Tuesday, surpassing the total recorded in Texas' 2025 outbreak and showing little sign of slowing. The outbreak, centered in Spartanburg County in the state's northwest, added 89 new cases in the four days since Friday. A concurrent outbreak along the Utah-Arizona border and confirmed cases in a dozen other states are threatening the United States' measles elimination status.
South Carolina’s measles outbreak has surpassed the case count from Texas’ 2025 outbreak, with health officials logging nearly 600 additional cases over just over a month, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The outbreak, centered in northwestern Spartanburg County, has confirmed 789 cases since September, according to the AP.
South Carolina's measles outbreak grew to 310 confirmed cases on Friday after state health officials reported 99 new cases over three days, with the virus spreading beyond Spartanburg County to families in North Carolina and Ohio who traveled to the outbreak area during the holidays. As of Friday, 200 people were in quarantine and nine in isolation, according to state health department data.
South Carolina health officials said the state’s measles outbreak has grown by nearly 100 cases over three days, prompting additional quarantine and isolation orders. The outbreak centered in Spartanburg County and has also produced cases in North Carolina and Ohio among families who traveled to the area during the school break.
