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A Quezon City hospital reviewed 20 children admitted with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis over 16 years. A quarter arrived in 2022, and the timing points back to the 2018–2019 measles outbreak.
A peer-reviewed national analysis puts a figure on this spring's resurgence: 8,834 laboratory-confirmed cases, more than 70% of patients hospitalised, and incidence highest in Dhaka division.
Measles incidence edged up and rubella more than doubled across 22 countries in 2023–2024, with outbreaks in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan driving the trend as second-dose coverage stalled.
In deficient populations, vitamin A supplements cut child deaths by 12% — among the best-evidenced global-health interventions. In the well-nourished, added vitamin A does no good and can do harm.
It does not. In a Danish cohort of 657,461 children, vaccinated children had a fully adjusted autism hazard ratio of 0.93; a meta-analysis of 1,256,407 children found no link with MMR, thimerosal or mercury.
On ten monitored flights, passengers away from a sick traveller faced low transmission risk, and every air sample tested negative for common viruses. Measles is the exception that proves the rule.
By 2023, 22% of children in Mali and 16% in Chad had received no routine vaccine at all, an analysis of WHO figures found, with measles coverage stuck below 90% across most of the belt.
It hangs in the air for up to two hours and infects the great majority of susceptible people it reaches. Less well known: it can erase part of the immune memory a person had already built to other diseases.
The more contagious a disease, the more of a population must be immune to stop it spreading. Measles sets the bar near 95%. It is not one figure but a range that depends on where you are.
An analysis of a decade of surveillance data shows the system leans heavily on hospitals and misses cases in the community — the weakness that lets measles circulate undetected between outbreaks.
A systematic review of the Syrian crisis and infectious disease in Lebanon names overcrowding, poor sanitation and blocked healthcare access — not the presence of refugees themselves — as the reported drivers.
A ruling comes in November. The country has held the status since 2000, and 2026 has already produced more cases than any year in three decades.
Surveillance data show reported measles cases from Tigray collapsed during the 2020–2022 war; afterward the median age of infection fell to five years and the odds a case was unvaccinated stayed sharply raised.
WHO and UNICEF estimates put DTP3 coverage at 85% for a second year running. Yellow fever protection sits at 53% in at-risk countries and HPV at 33% in girls, both far below target.
CDC data through July 2 puts 2026 at 2,170 confirmed cases, just short of all of 2025's 2,289. Ninety-three percent of this year's cases are linked to active outbreaks.
WHO reports 19,161 suspected cases and 166 deaths in a single month, most in children under five. The country had been close to eliminating the disease.
Judge Brian Murphy found the government likely broke two federal laws when it bypassed ACIP and replaced its members. The ruling reverts the childhood schedule and cancels this week's ACIP meeting.
PAHO counted 14,891 confirmed cases across the Americas in 2025, a 32-fold rise on 2024. Six South American countries reported cases, and only a third of the region's countries reach the coverage that stops outbreaks.
WHO and CDC estimate cases climbed about 20% in a single year, and the number of countries hit by large or disruptive outbreaks jumped from 36 to 57 — while global first-dose coverage stayed flat.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' 2026 schedule covers 18 diseases and carries 12 outside endorsements. The federal schedule signed three weeks earlier lists 11 vaccines for all children.
Eleven vaccines remain recommended for all children. The rest move to risk-based or shared-decision categories, on the strength of a comparison with 20 other countries.
The year-end immunization summary reports 88% fewer measles deaths since 2000, malaria vaccine in 24 African countries, and 25 years without wild polio in the Western Pacific.
The committee meets 18-19 September on COVID-19, hepatitis B and MMRV vaccines. RSV was dropped two days before. Adopted recommendations carry insurance and Vaccines for Children consequences.
A Global Burden of Disease analysis of 204 countries finds 15.7 million children received no DTP dose in 2023, more than half of them in eight countries, and only one of three target vaccines on track for 2030.