Measles, Shakira and New Jersey
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New Jersey health officials are asking people who went to last week's Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium to monitor for measles symptoms because a person went to see the singer while infectious. There is no confirmed outbreak in New Jersey,
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 1,024 with infections confirmed in 30 states, according to new CDC data published Friday.
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Raw Story on MSNDOGE cuts locked CDC out of social media accounts: 'All people with passwords were fired'The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has virtually stopped communicating urgent health information to the public due to cuts imposed by the Trump administration. Newsletters, health alerts and social media accounts have largely gone silent since president Donald Trump returned to office in January,
The Centers for Disease Control has reported in an update that a total of 1,024 cases of the disease across the U.S. and 14 outbreaks had been reported since the beginning of the year
FARGO — Adults should check their vaccination records, as ones born before 1989 may have only received one dose of the measles vaccine, a doctor said. Others may have a vaccine that doesn’t provide protection against the highly contagious virus, experts said.
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But since President Trump's administration assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent, an NPR analysis found. Many of the CDC's newsletters have stopped being distributed,
The U.S. has surpassed 1,000 measles cases for the first time in five years, according to new data from the CDC published Friday.
There have been 1,024 confirmed cases of measles across 30 states so far this year, according to the latest update from the CDC on Friday, increasing by 23 cases over the previous week and far surpassing the 285 measles cases in total reported in 2024 (the CDC does not provide data on how many cases are actively infectious).