Measles
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention March 4 announced it sent agency experts to Texas to assist local officials in responding to the state’s measles outbreak.
A school-aged child in Texas is the first reported individual to die from measles amid an outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions of the state, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced today. The child was not vaccinated against the disease and was hospitalized last week.…
The U.S. has retained its measles elimination status for another year, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday reported 1,001 cases of measles so far this year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday reported 971 cases of measles so far this year, the most since 1992.