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A highly contagious viral disease preventable by the MMR vaccine, capable of causing pneumonia, encephalitis, and death.
AP and The Guardian obtained a letter Kennedy sent before the 2019 trip, and it settles what the visit was for without settling what the visit did, a distinction both his defenders and his critics keep collapsing.
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The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991. The figure on the federal counter is one death, marked subject to change, while Pennsylvania officials describe four deaths among unvaccinated people.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tied CDC measles death counts to NCHS coding, so the dashboard lists one death where Pennsylvania reports four. Former NCHS officials say coding delays and suppression of counts below 10 will leave the federal figure behind small outbreaks.
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US measles cases reached 3,471 by Sept. 17, about 52% more than in all of 2025, CDC figures show. New AAP guidance prepares clinicians for babies infected before birth, whose risk estimates rest on limited research.
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A physician and epidemiologist who nearly died of measles in 1961 warns in STAT about this year's surge. Working through the essay's own figures puts the susceptible share of a childhood cohort near one in ten.
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Bangladesh's first-dose measles coverage stood near 97 percent in 2019, second-dose near 93, and the country was heading toward elimination. What has followed since March is its deadliest measles outbreak since 2005.
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The Aug. 10 order also cuts the routine childhood list from 18 vaccines to 11 on the argument that the United States is out of step with Europe, and the pediatricians who have read it say no new safety or efficacy data came with it.
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Four deaths in a 693-case Pennsylvania outbreak have been attributed to measles by state officials and a county coroner, while the CDC's 2026 measles death count stands at zero pending the coding of death records.
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