The Latest Breaking News from Measles

Billionaire and ex-New York City mayor says if Americans die unnecessarily, Senate Republicans will pay at ballot box

Brian Hooker seems to not have alerted authorities of his illness after leaving west Texas

Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance

Measles cases are at their highest rate in the US in decades. Robert F Kennedy doesn’t seem too bothered

Staff deploy infection controls and step up cleaning as cases pass 500 for year to date and after one child dies

In the Canadian town of Aylmer, where Mennonites in traditional dress walk down the main street alongside secular locals, bitter divisions over vaccine skepticism that arose during Covid have intensified with the reemergence of measles.

In today’s newsletter: With an alarming rise in cases culminating in the death of a child at Alder Hey hospital last week, urgent solutions to the disease’s resurgence are required.

New research suggests that measles infection doesn’t just make you ill in the short term; it may also undo years of immune protection

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating consequences. Fortunately, we have a safe and effective defence. Measles vaccines are estimated to have averted more than 60 million deaths between 2000 and 2023.