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Local officials started preparing measles plan months before case confirmed in a Triad visitor

4:48pm June 27, 2025

Earlier this year, in response to an outbreak in the Midwest, Guilford County health officials started offering walk-in appointments for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

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State's first case of measles reported in Guilford, Forsyth visitor

4:45pm June 24, 2025

by Paul Garber

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recommends that all unvaccinated individuals one year or older get a measles vaccination to protect themselves and those around them.

One Death Reported As Texas Measles Outbreak Spreads

Texas' measles outbreak isn't slowing down. How can that change?

4:19pm April 08, 2025

Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease

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The Global Measles Laboratory is 'under severe threat of collapse' as U.S. pulls funding

4:19am March 20, 2025

by Gabrielle Emanuel

That's the perspective of a World Health Organization official after the Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network, which detects and controls measles, lost its sole funder.

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Large Outbreak Of Measles Reported In California

A child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

12:25pm February 26, 2025

It's the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015. More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened in the outbreak so far.

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How measles, whooping cough and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.'s watch

6:00am December 06, 2024

With anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.

The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is part of the CDC's recommended childhood immunization schedule. ERIC RISBERG/AP

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North Carolina reports first case of measles since 2018

2:24pm September 10, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

Nationwide cases of measles have been on the rise in recent years. In North Carolina, the first case of the disease since 2018 was reported on Monday, Sept. 8, 2024.

Vaccination Campaign Against Measles- Rubella Launched In Nepal

Are kids getting routine vaccines? Progress has 'stalled' yet there is some good news

12:31pm July 17, 2024

by Gabrielle Emanuel

Vaccination rates took a hit during the pandemic — and they've not really recovered, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. But ... look at Ukraine!

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The jump in measles cases in 2023 is 'very concerning' says WHO official

4:39pm April 29, 2024

And the numbers in 2024 aren't looking any better. Why is this highly infectious disease on the rise? And how can it be tamed?

So far in 2024, more than 80% of measles cases involved people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, according to CDC data.

CDC warns that measles spike poses a 'renewed threat' to the disease's elimination

4:49pm April 12, 2024

by Juliana Kim

So far this year, the U.S. has seen more than 120 cases of the highly contagious disease — more than double the cases for all of 2023. Still, chances of widespread transmission remains low.