measles

Penn Badgley isn’t that impressed by the acting skills of a Fox News commentator who wanted to talk about the measles storyline on “You.”

The Biden administration has temporarily halted U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees after four people who recently arrived in the United States tested positive for the measles.

The Afghans diagnosed with measles are in quarantine, and the CDC has begun contact-tracing steps, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

The Connecticut Senate has passed a bill that would remove the religious exemption for childhood vaccinations. The bill, which already passed the House, now goes to the governor’s desk.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health said a second case of the measles has been reported in Fairfield County. Officials said it was a child that was infected. The child did not attend school while infectious and is a household contact of the first child who contracted measles, which was reported on April 9. DPH officials is working to identify…

The CT Department of Public Health announced Friday that a case of measles has been reported in a child in Fairfield County. The child was not yet vaccinated against measles and they were infected while traveling internationally, DPH officials said. Officials warn that measles is a highly contagious disease that can spread quickly among people who are unvaccinated. However, DPH…

The Department of Public Health released data that shows more schools are reaching the CDC herd immunity rate of 95% vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella at the same time more students are claiming a religious exemption.

The Department of Public Health released data that shows more schools are reaching the CDC herd immunity rate of 95% vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella at the same time more students are claiming a religious exemption. “It’s a bit of a mixed bag. If you just look at it year-over-year, it seems slightly positive in some areas – in…

Routine vaccinations for young children in the United States fell during the first half of this year as more Americans skipped routine doctor visits and stayed home due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC warned that measles outbreaks could result from fewer vaccinations. The CDC analyzed…

Vaccinations are on the decline as parents shy away from pediatrician officers but doctors said that could open the door to more illness outbreaks

Parents fearful of the coronavirus are shying away from pediatrician offices. That means children are missing some critical immunizations for childhood diseases such as measles, opening the door to outbreaks of illnesses dangerous to young people.  According to the Connecticut Department of Public Health, state-supplied pediatric vaccine doses were down 13-percent in March and 43-percent in April 2020, compared with…

A person in Boston has a confirmed case of measles, city health officials announced Wednesday, warning that others at five locations in the South End, Fenway and Back Bay may have been exposed in the last week, potentially making them susceptible to the virus. The measles case is the city’s first in a resident since 2013 and Massachusetts’ third this...

The state Department of Public Health says there is a fourth case of measles in Connecticut for 2019. The person who contracted the measles is a school-aged child from Fairfield County, according to the Department of Health. They said the child was not infectious while at school.

A measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is over, meaning an emergency order mandating vaccines will be lifted, health officials said Tuesday.

A teenage girl with measles visited Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Universal Studios theme parks this month and may have exposed other park-goers to the disease, Orange and Los Angeles County health officials said Friday.

In one unanimous show of hands, Democratic presidential candidates moved to the mainstream the idea of full health insurance for people who don’t have legal permission to be in the United States. But turning that debate-night moment into reality would mean reversing longstanding federal policies that have only gotten stricter. The idea is so new that independent experts say they...

California public health officials would have oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.

Vaccinations have been made mandatory this summer for campers and staff in several counties north of New York City that annually fill up with kids from the Orthodox Jewish communities that have been hit hardest by measles.

New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation’s worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out

Actress Jessica Biel says she’s not opposed to vaccinations, but she does not support a bill in California that would limit medical exemptions. The 37-year-old has drawn criticism after appearing this week in Sacramento with vaccination skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to voice concerns about the measure. Biel posted on Instagram Thursday morning that she supports children getting vaccinated and...