The reason that we don’t get hundreds of cases like we did way in the past, before vaccination, is because of vaccination.”

The state of Florida has reported its first measles case for 2025 in Miami-Dade Public Schools. Amid the measles outbreak this year, experts note the importance of vaccination.

A teenager in Miami-Dade has a confirmed cases of measles, the first such infection in Florida since a small outbreak of the disease in South Florida in 2024. The infection was reported on a Florida Department of Health database for Florida’s infectious and reportable diseases.

Here’s what to know about the current measles outbreak, how common the measles is in the U.S., how it spreads and what the symptoms and treatment are.

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres provided an update Thursday on the one case of measles at Palmetto Senior High School, saying Thursday that “everything is very stable.”