Cases of measles in American continue to rise. As of June 5th of this year, the official case count in the country stood at 2,030 confirmed cases. In 2025’s record breaking year for measles cases, the most we’d had in 3 decades, there were 2,288 confirmed cases. We’re going to speed right past that number […]
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
The province says the exposure happened at a clinic in the Westhills area back on May 11. Anyone who may have been there in a two-hour timeframe in the late morning may be exposed.
US Sen. Angela Alsobrooks calls again for removal of US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola pose international public health threats
Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa.
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“Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.” — Edward S. Herman, “Manufactured Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media” In a number of articles on its website, PEN America explains in striking detail the right-wing Trojan horse of “parental rights,” illuminating the threat caused by policymakers focused on this theater in the culture war. PEN […]
As summer vacations nears and the opportunity for travel increases, measles cases in Florida and across the United States continue to rise. Florida Department of Health data show that between the start of the year and May 1, 150 suspected and confirmed measles cases were reported to state health officials. Fourteen of Florida’s 67 counties […]
The latest hantavirus outbreak raises the question of how does hantavirus compare with other viruses that have posed major public health challenges.
Maryland remains better prepared to combat public health emergencies than most other states, but federal shakeups in staffing and funding could threaten those protections, according to a new report from Trust for America’s Health.
The U.S. may be close to losing its measles-free status.
In the year 2,000 (cue the Conan O’Brien music), America had so successfully defeated measles as a disease that we were awarded elimination status for the disease. Then Trump was elected to a second term, for reasons I still can’t fully explain, after which RFK Jr. somehow was confirmed as the Secretary of HHS. Almost […]
There is no single approach or specific tool that could rapidly and significantly increase vaccination coverage in Latvia, as the reasons why people choose not to vaccinate vary widely. This was highlighted by experts during the informational event “Immunization in Latvia: what stands between vaccine availability and vaccination?”. The director of the Slimību profilakses un […]
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Maryland health officials warn that a Baltimore-area resident was confirmed to have measles after traveling internationally, marking the first measles outbreak of the year.
Although some of the criticisms of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement are spot on, why did KevinMD platform a practitioner of functional medicine woo to make them?
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The Trump administration is lying to the public—and it doesn’t care.
In a heated exchange before the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday morning, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted that his department has “done better” at preventing measles amid a global epidemic than “any country in the world.”
Measles is an incredibly contagious disease, meaning that an outbreak anywhere is…
The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC), based on an in-depth analysis of vaccination data registered in the e-health system, has found insufficient measles vaccination coverage. In certain child age groups, only about 85% of children have been vaccinated according to the immunisation schedule. In the age groups analysed by SPKC — from 16 […]
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Bangladesh said it suspected measles killed at least 98 children in the past three weeks, official data showed Sunday, with Dhaka ramping up vaccination efforts in the worst-affected areas.
Last week, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman directed two senior ministers to travel across the South Asian nation of 170 million people in an effort to assess the scale of the crisis to help coordinate a…
BRISTOL, Conn. — Rodney Carlson, supposed fan of English rock and blues guitarist-turned-anti-vaxxer Eric Clapton, showed himself to be fully inoculated against... Read the full masterpiece
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As the measles outbreak continues, a total of 36 cases have now been registered in Latvia, according to data published by the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC). Previously, SPKC had reported 31 cases. According to the latest data, 12 of those infected are children aged six to ten, 13 are aged 11 to […]
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ICAN attorney and antivaxxer Aaron Siri recently petitioned HHS to add 300 "injuries" to the Vaccine Injury Table for the Vaccine Injury Compensation System. It's all part of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s plan to undermine and destroy the system, thus driving vaccine manufacturers out of the market.
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A judge recently ruled that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went too far in his drive to turn ACIP into a an antivax committee. Meanwhile, ProPublica reports on where we are heading; it's not good.
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An epidemiologist who studies vaccine hesitancy and a public-facing science communicator, views these HHS actions as extremely damaging to public health, and is relieved they have been paused, at least while legal proceedings are ongoing.
With RFK Jr. and his version of HHS entirely out to lunch on the ongoing measles issue in America, it’s been left to states and local medical professionals to try to figure out how to do combat with one of the most infectious diseases on the planet. In a sane world with a real, big […]
The situation with the measles outbreak in Latvia is serious, said Baiba Rozentāle, head of the Latvian Infectology Centre, in an interview on Latvian Television’s programme “Rīta panorāma.” She predicts that the situation is likely to develop “not so well,” as data from the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) show that around 14,000 […]
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The new case is not believed to be connected to the outbreak in Broomfield that has sickened at least 10 people
The first measles outbreak in Latvia since 2018 has been recorded, according to Ilze Ūdre, a representative of the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC). She noted that the SPKC is conducting an epidemiological investigation of the outbreak and organizing infection control measures. As of the 17th of March, five measles cases have been […]
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The state health department reports that 99 of the cases originated in a contracted detention facility in Hudspeth County.
No. While measles vaccines usually provide lifelong protection, some people born before 1968 may have received a less effective vaccine.
If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Kennedy road Trump’s coattails, building his own Make America Health Again (MAHA) movement on the back of the wider MAGA […]
Two more confirmed cases were announced Thursday, with another suspected case being investigated