The Latest Breaking News from Measles

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.

Declining health budgets and the spread of misinformation are putting children in the UK at risk of measles, as Rebecca Thomas reports

Health officials say complacency around routine vaccinations can make it easier for misinformation to take hold.

U.N. health officials reported that more than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year

More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year

The Health Secretary said ‘no child in this country should be dying of measles’.

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality