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Measles Is Back, and It Could Cost America $1.5 Billion a Year
Something quiet has been happening in America’s public health system for several years now. Vaccination rates have been slipping. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, fewer children have been receiving the MMR shot that for decades kept measles at bay. Health officials noticed. Researchers ran the numbers. What they found should alarm anyone who pays taxes, carries health…
Mom of 7-Year-Old Hospitalized With Measles Brain Swelling Says She Still Wouldn’t Choose the Vaccine
A 7-year-old boy in South Carolina is fighting to regain movement after developing brain swelling from measles. His story is heartbreaking. It is also complicated. Ethan, an unvaccinated child living in the center of a growing measles outbreak, developed encephalitis—a serious complication that inflames the brain. While many children recover from measles with supportive care,…
How Falling Vaccination Rates Are Bringing Measles Back to the United States
For decades, measles was a word most Americans rarely heard outside of history books or old vaccination records. It was a disease many parents assumed no longer posed a real threat, something their grandparents worried about, not something that could shut down schools, overwhelm hospitals, or take children’s lives in 2025. That sense of safety…