The Measles Comeback

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dramatically reshapes U.S. immunization policy, we speak with Dr. Fiona Havers, a former top vaccine expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who resigned in June. Last week, Kennedy’s handpicked advisers on a federal vaccine panel voted against universal hepatitis B shots for newborns, reversing 35 years of CDC guidance that all newborns receive the vaccine within 24 hours of birth. The Trump administration also recently altered the CDC’s website to include false claims linking autism and vaccines, in keeping with Kennedy’s spreading of vaccine misinformation going back decades. CNN is reporting the FDA is also considering putting a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines. “This administration is causing a lot of confusion and is using, basically, the CDC to spread misinformation now about vaccines,” says Dr. Havers. She also discusses her decision to resign from the CDC and the chaos the Trump administration has caused at the agency, calling RFK Jr.’s changes a “hostile takeover” to advance “anti-science views.”

After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status.That means this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country this year for the first time since 1998.This is really really embarrassing. Because with two doses, the MMR vaccine’s efficacy is about 100 per c

The USA faces a risk of losing its measles elimination status due to ongoing outbreaks that began in 2025.

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s

Of the 400 cases, 398 were people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status.

In St. Thomas, Ontario, Asmaa Hussain is on the frontlines treating unvaccinated patients. As vaccine refusal grows in Canada, she wonders if other preventable diseases are next.

An unvaccinated child has died of measles, Texas officials announced Wednesday, the first death from measles in the United States in a decade. The child’s death in a hospital in Lubbock, in West Texas, comes as the largest measles outbreak in the state in over 30 years is now spreading to New Mexico. Since last month, 124 people have contracted the disease, most of them unvaccinated children. “The minute you stop vaccinating and maintaining that vigilance of 90-95% vaccine coverage, measles comes roaring back, and that’s what’s happened here in West Texas,” world-renowned pediatrician, virologist and vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Hotez, tells Democracy Now!

With a longtime vaccine skeptic serving as the country’s top health official, the movement is likely to make further inroads.

Ontario is facing a huge spike in cases of measles with the virus rapidly spreading among mostly unvaccinated residents.

A new modeling study offers a stark look at caseloads in the next two decades if current trends hold. Can the nation’s healthcare system handle the strain?

9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.

The rise in measles outbreaks and deaths is not surprising, given the recent decline in vaccination rates, said an official of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Utah's prolonged measles outbreak is straining families and doctors, highlighting the human toll of declining childhood vaccination rates.

A rebound in vaccination—which may depend on government support.

The WHO says measles transmission is again established in the UK after falling vaccine uptake, with 3681 cases reported in 2024.

Kindergarten vaccination rates fell in 2024 to the lowest in over a decade.