The safest way to protect yourself from measles when traveling is to be vaccinated. Malte Mueller/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Malte Mueller/Getty Images The U.S. is in the midst of the worst measles resurgence in decades. Recent outbreaks in several states and exposures in places like bars, sports stadiums and on public transit have
Chester County public health officials did not wait long to launch a response to the growing measles outbreak in their community, which shares a border with Lancaster County, the epicentre of the outbreak. Jeanne Franklin, the director of the health department, said officials have been using some of the strategies they employed during the Covid
David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Edward R. Roybal campus, the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC is the national public health agency of the United States, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). hapabapa/Getty Images/iStock Editorial hide caption toggle caption hapabapa/Getty Images/iStock Editorial
The measles ward at Dhaka Shishu Hospital is full, even five months after the start of a massive outbreak in Bangladesh. Ali Asif Shawon for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ali Asif Shawon for NPR In May, we posted a story about the rapid and devastating spread of measles in Bangladesh. The headline: More than
Two people who were not vaccinated against measles have died of the virus in Pennsylvania, health officials said. The state has seen 393 cases of the highly contagious virus this year, as infections across the US have hit the highest point in 35 years. Last year, two unvaccinated children in Texas died from a measles
The United States has reached a 35-year high in measles cases, according to new figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The United States has seen 2,318 confirmed cases of measles in 2026, just seven months into the year, down from a high of 2,289 last year, when two unvaccinated children
