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The Keene-area child believed to be infected with measles was probably experiencing a reaction from the measles vaccine, and the public is not at risk of a measles outbreak, state health officials said. Earlier this week, state officials said that the child had visited a church and school in the Keene area and warned that those near the child were at risk of exposure. It was New Hampshire’s only supposed case of measles, and the news piggybacked on outbreaks in New York and California, where health officials blamed parents who did not immunize children against the disease...

team of researchers who in 2015 correctly predicted where the Zika outbreak would strike now are placing their scientifically backed bets on where the next big measles outbreak will happen. Number one on a list of 25 counties in danger: Cook County. Here’s the full list, available with the study at the website of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, in which the study was published. 1. Cook, Ill.

A research project spearheaded by Sahotra Sarkar, a University of Chicago-educated professor at the University of Texas at Austin, revealed the 25 counties most at-risk for a widespread measles outbreak, like those seen in Washington, Oregon and New York. That’s based largely on the number of airplane flights to Chicago from global destinations where parents increasingly don’t have their children vaccinated, she said. “As we know O’Hare is a huge transfer point for travel within the United States, not to mention all of the international flights,” she said. “I’m not surprised that their modeling would’ve predicted that Cook County and...

Should catching the measles, or mumps, or chicken pox, or tuberculosis be part of a federal employee's job description? You know, take the TB the way the military at war with an enemy takes the bullet? Except, of course, that the military can defend itself. Border Patrol agents cannot. It is now. InfoWars, via Drudge Report, has some news on just this appalling state of affairs: More agents than ever before are calling in sick to work or showing up sick, says a Border Patrol representative who worries too many agents are succumbing to illnesses brought by illegal aliens.   Carlos...

<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) - Authorities in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas say they have detained 289 Central American migrants, including some children with measles and other illnesses.</p> <p>The Tamaulipas state government says the migrants were found crammed into the freight compartments of two tractor-trailer trucks.</p>

More than half of Americans polled recently were in favor of vaccinating children against measles, even if it meant going against the parents’ wishes. In a Reuters poll, more than 2,000 people were asked to give their opinions about getting vaccinated for the measles. Advertisement It’s all in relation to the outbreak, which has confirmed 764 cases so far, that’s sweeping the nation. Eighty-five percent of those polled completely agreed with vaccinating every single child unless there a medical reason not to, such as an allergy or otherwise life-threatening issue. Then 77% said children should get immunized even if the...

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, bringing to the New World a bounty of wonder: coffee, horses, turnips, grapes, wine. But Columbus and his fellow explorers, in addition to importing crops and animals we now take for granted, were also the Typhoid Marys of their time. The New World before Columbus: no typhoid, no flu, no smallpox, no measles. The New World after Columbus: epidemics of death.

Anti-vaxxers allegedly circulating memes and clips from an old episode of the “Brady Bunch,” in which all of the kids come down with the measles, have drawn the ire of one of the show’s former stars — who says the virus is no laughing matter.

April 28 (Reuters) - Adults in the United States who were vaccinated against measles decades ago may need a new dose depending on when they received the shot and their exposure risk, according to public health experts battling the nation's largest outbreak since the virus was deemed eliminated in 2000. Up to 10 percent of the 695 confirmed measles cases in the current outbreak occurred in people who received one or two doses of the vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The figure illustrates what can happen when a large number of individuals, even those...

15 bodies found after Sri Lankan police engaged in a gun battle in the eastern part of the country with Islamic State terrorist suspects..... A Russian woman accused of being a spy who targeted the National Rifle Association was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday..... Some French reporters in trouble for "compromising national secrets". That's because they revealed information on French weapons being used in the Saudi-led war against Shia Muslim Houthi rebels in Yemen..... Week 24 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday following President Emmanuel Macron's Thursday announcement of measures seen as a response to the...

A measles quarantine was ordered Thursday at two public universities in Los Angeles in an effort to try to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease. The order was issued at UCLA and Cal State LA for students and staff exposed to a confirmed case of measles and who cannot prove they have been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. Those students and university employees, numbering more than 100, were being ordered to stay home, avoid contact with others and notify public health officials if they develop symptoms... The news comes at a time when measles cases in the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 695 measles cases in 22 states. "This is the greatest number of cases reported in the United States since measles was eliminated from this country in 2000," says a CDC statement issued late Wednesday. The agency attributed the high number of cases primarily to a few large outbreaks — one in the state of Washington and two others in New York. The New York outbreaks are among the largest and longest-lasting since 2000. "The longer these outbreaks continue, the greater the chance measles will again get a sustained foothold in the United...

The United States recorded 71 new measles cases last week, a 13 percent increase as the country faces its second-worst outbreak of the disease in almost two decades, federal health officials said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had recorded 626 cases of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease in 22 states as of April 19, the highest rate of infection in five years.

In Brooklyn, New York a judge dismissing a court challenge to mandatory measles vaccinations in neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. There's been a large measles outbreak in the New York area..... The big Newsdump event of the week Thursday with release of a redacted report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller into matters related to President Trump..... Protest bans in Paris for Yellow Vests demonstrations Saturday with Notre-Dame Cathedral added.... In France Thursday a day to honor firefighters who fought Monday night's blaze at the Notre-Dame Cathedral.... Was the fire at Notre-Dame something other than an accident?..... In Northern Ireland...

The measles outbreak that has plagued New York since October has officially made its way west. Michigan health officials confirmed to CNN that the Midwestern state’s current outbreak in Oakland County has links to New York’s.

An Israeli flight attendant has slipped into a coma after contracting measles, according to health officials. The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus. She was otherwise healthy before getting measles. "She's been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we're now just hoping for the best," said Dr. Itamar Grotto, associate director general of Israel's Ministry of Health. The flight attendant, who works for El Al, the Israeli national airline, might have contracted the virus in New York, in Israel or on a flight between the two,...

The number of U.S. measles cases through the first three months of this year have surpassed the count for all of 2018, health officials say. There have been 387 cases through March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. There were 372 last year.

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — Erica Wingate was working at a clothing store in town this week when a male customer, with the black hat and sidelocks typically worn by ultra-Orthodox Jews, started coughing. Another shopper standing next to him suddenly dropped the item she had been holding and clutched her child. “She was buying something, and she just threw it down,” Ms. Wingate recalled. “She said, ‘Let’s go, let’s go! Jews don’t have shots!’” A measles outbreak in this suburban New York county has sickened scores of people and alarmed public health experts who fear it may be a harbinger...

If vaccines don’t cause autism, what does? The scientific community owes the world an answer to this question. Amidst measles outbreaks like the ones unfolding in New York and Washington state, doctors have a responsibility to the public beyond haranguing parents to vaccinate their children. We must explain how we know that vaccines do not cause autism, and instead explain why autism develops. When the theory that vaccines might cause autism was advanced by the now-discredited British physician Andrew Wakefield in 1998, based on a case series of 12 patients, the scientific community took the claim seriously. The landmark test...