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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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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...

Health officials say this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses. It’s already the highest in 27 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count Wednesday, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. Most are from outbreaks in New York in Orthodox Jewish communities. The nation last saw this many cases...

Health officials say this year’s U.S. measles epidemic has surpassed 1,000 illnesses. It’s already the highest in 27 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the count Wednesday, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. Most are from outbreaks in New York in Orthodox Jewish communities. The nation last saw this many cases...

Cheryl Healton remembers the look on her mother’s face when the then 8-year old was diagnosed with measles in 1961. “I could tell by her reaction that my life was at risk,” said Healton, now 66 and the dean of New York University’s College of Global Public Health. It was. While measles is best known for the rash it produces,...

Lawmakers will not be voting on the state’s vaccination policy until they get more data from the state Department of Public Health on how to increase vaccination rates in school districts and schools with high vaccine exemption rates.

We’re in the midst of one of the worst measles outbreaks in years and as the contagious virus spreads across the country, lawmakers here in Connecticut are trying to stop this and future outbreaks.

Nearly 100 more measles cases have been reported across the nation since last week, marking a 10 percent increase in total cases as the number in the U.S.’ worst outbreak in decades eclipses the 800 mark, officials said Monday.