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One in five babies missed their first measles shot, and cases climbed 40%
The vaccination slide hit four continents at once, and the US is now feeling it harder than in decades.
1 in 5 infants globally missed their first measles vaccine in 2023, and cases are up 40% since 2019
Decades of progress against childhood measles are slipping, and the gap begins before most babies take their first steps.
Measles can infect 9 in 10 unprotected people
Measles is returning in countries that once brought the disease under control. While most patients recover, the virus can cause pneumonia, brain inflammation and a rare neurological disease that emerges years after the original infection. With thousands of cases reported across Europe and the Americas in 2026, health authorities are warning that falling vaccination rates could allow further outbreaks.
New York declare state of emergency with huge disease outbreak
The outbreak keeps spreading state by state, and health officials say one factor turns up again and again in nearly every case.
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak has killed five, and 99 percent of patients were unvaccinated
The toll has moved beyond infants to adults, and the US thought it had put outbreaks like this behind it.
A fifth person has died in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak as US hit a 35-year peak
The outbreak keeps spreading county by county, and Pennsylvania has now overtaken every other state in the country.