Health News Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak To Poor Diet And Health, Citing Fringe Theories

Measles outbreaks worsen in South Carolina, Arizona and Utah

Nationally, the measles case count is nearing 2,000 for a disease that has been considered eliminated in the U.S. since 2000, a result of routine childhood vaccinations. Read More

While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains

How many measles cases are going undetected? Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Utah, said in some communities, getting tested means a tank of gas, missing work, finding a ... Read More

First measles death reported in Texas as Kennedy downplays outbreak

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday appeared to downplay the seriousness of the West Texas measles outbreak that has killed a school-age child. The child’s death, ... Read More

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone as Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina

The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 27 new cases of measles on Tuesday, all identified since last Friday, bringing the total number of identified cases in the state this year to ... Read More

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases. Read More

Kennedy’s push for vitamins in response to measles outbreak worries physicians

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous ... Read More

Health officials provide safe travel tips for SC Measles outbreak

CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - More than 50 confirmed cases of measles have been linked to an outbreak in South Carolina’s Upstate, with over 100 people quarantined due to potential exposure. The South Carolina ... Read More

South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows chilling effect of vaccine misinformation

Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free ... Read More

CDC Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

Health officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end the United States’ status as a nation that has ... Read More

Texas Measles Strain Continues to Spread, Officials Say

If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished soon, the United States will lose its “elimination status,” as determined by the World Health Organization. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Teddy Rosenbluth The ... Read More