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Pennsylvania Measles Cases Reach 890 As Outbreak Continues To Spread
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak has now reached 890 confirmed cases across 39 counties, with another 55 infections reported in just two days. The outbreak has also resulted in 173 hospitalizations and four measles-associated deaths, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The rapid rise has made Pennsylvania the center of the country’s current measles resurgence. For…
America’s Measles Surge Has Reached A Level Not Seen In 35 Years
The United States has recorded more than 3,600 confirmed measles cases in 2026, pushing the country into a situation public health officials have been warning about for years. The latest figures show 3,659 confirmed infections as of September 24, with cases reported across 47 jurisdictions. That is already far above the 2,289 cases recorded during…
Kentucky’s Measles Outbreak Has Reached Its Highest Level in Decades
Kentucky has confirmed 29 measles cases this year, with 17 of those cases recorded in August alone. The surge has pushed the state to its highest annual total since 1991, putting renewed attention on a disease that health officials say can spread with startling speed among people who are not protected. The outbreak is now…
North Carolina Petting Zoo Rabies Scare Prompts Urgent Health Warning
What began as a summer visit to a mobile petting zoo has triggered an urgent public health investigation across several North Carolina counties. Multiple baby goats that traveled to public and private events were found to have rabies, and officials are now trying to identify anyone who may have had close contact with the animals.…
Five People Whose Discoveries Saved Millions of Lives
A dying 14-year-old boy became part of a medical breakthrough that would change the lives of millions. On January 11, 1922, Leonard Thompson received an experimental injection at Toronto General Hospital while weighing just 65 pounds and fighting a disease that had almost certainly doomed him. The first attempt failed, leaving him with an abscess…
Health Officials Say Dangerous Cat-Spread Fungus Reaching the U.S. Is Only a Matter of Time
A family in England was doing everything right by their sick cat. He’d flown over with them from Brazil three years earlier — nine years old, long-haired, completely part of the family. When sores opened up on his head and paws and wouldn’t close, they cleaned them. They held him steady at the vet. They…
The Last Person In America Living Inside An Iron Lung Is Gone
A five-year-old girl woke up on a sunny morning in Oklahoma in 1953 and could barely move her neck. Four days later, Martha Ann Lillard could not breathe. She would spend the next 73 years living with the consequences of polio, much of that time inside a steel machine that forced her lungs to work.…
Two Dead After Rare Parasite Outbreak Linked to Recalled Lettuce Sickens More Than 11,000
What began as a growing foodborne illness outbreak has now taken a deadly turn. Michigan health officials have confirmed that two people have died after contracting cyclospora, a parasite linked to contaminated food that has already sickened more than 11,000 people across the state. The deaths mark the first fatalities connected to an outbreak that…
The Medical Breakthrough That Quietly Saved Millions of Lives
Vaccines rarely dominate the news unless a major health crisis puts them back into the spotlight. Their greatest achievements are often invisible because successful vaccination programs prevent outbreaks before they begin, allowing millions of people to live healthy lives without ever experiencing diseases that once devastated entire communities. That quiet success has made vaccines seem…
Lettuce Recall Expands as Cyclospora Outbreak Sickens Nearly 2,000 People Across Nine States
What began as a routine food safety investigation has rapidly turned into one of the largest Cyclospora outbreaks the United States has seen in recent years. Federal health officials are now urging consumers to check their refrigerators after a massive recall of iceberg lettuce linked to hundreds of restaurants and retail stores across the country.…