Measles, once eliminated in the U.S., sickens 99 in Texas and New Mexico

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/24/measles-outbreaks-texas-new-mexico/

President Donald Trump — a longtime vaccine skeptic — has a mixed record on the subject. His choice for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation and recently promised to scrutinize childhood vaccination schedules, blaming them as a potential contributor to the rise in chronic diseases, the Associated Press reported this month.

While on the campaign trail, Trump pledged to cut federal funding for schools that required vaccines.

In the decade leading up to the measles vaccine’s introduction in 1963, the disease killed an estimated 400 to 500 people in the United States each year and caused an estimated 48,000 hospitalizations annually, the CDC said. So far, about a quarter of the cases recorded this year have resulted in hospitalizations, either to isolate the infected person or to treat complications.