Full Coverage: The measles outbreak
An outbreak of measles that began before Christmas at Disneyland has spread to several states and dozens of cases.
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California officials on Friday declared the end of the Disneyland measles outbreak, but the political battle over immunization that it sparked continues to rage on.
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A proposal that would require more children to be vaccinated in California ran into trouble Wednesday amid objections that it would force thousands of non-immunized students out of public schools.
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Although epidemiologists have not yet identified the person who brought measles to Disneyland, a new analysis shows that the highly contagious disease has spread to seven states and two other countries thanks to parents who declined to vaccinate their children.
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Health officials are on alert after an adult with measles went to a Berkeley restaurant last Friday, as the number of cases in the California-centered measles outbreak climbed to at least 156 patients across eight states, Canada and Mexico.
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The number of cases in the California-centered measles outbreak rose to at least 149 patients across eight states, Canada and Mexico.
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Fourteen unvaccinated infants will be allowed to return Monday to a Santa Monica High School child-care center where one child was diagnosed with measles.
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As California health officials search for the origins of the Disneyland measles outbreak, some of their detective work is pointing to the Philippines.
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Los Angeles school officials have launched an effort to increase and document the percentage of young children who’ve been vaccinated against measles, including hiring 10 nurses on a temporary basis.
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Measles was once considered a childhood illness, spreading rapidly across schools, playgrounds and parks.
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Ten measles cases in Canada stem from a visit to Disneyland, health officials announced Wednesday, meaning the California-centered measles outbreak has spread to yet another country.
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BART riders commuting to San Francisco may have been exposed to measles, public health officials are warning after a passenger tested positive for the infectious virus.
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When the mother of an 18-month-old visited Dr.
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California public health officials are warning parents against “measles parties,” saying that intentionally exposing unvaccinated children to a person with measles could put them at grave risk.
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The California-centered measles outbreak has spread to Solano County, as the number of cases rose to at least 123 in 11 California counties, seven other states and Mexico.
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All UC students will have to be vaccinated against measles, meningitis, whooping cough and several other diseases or they will not be allowed to register for classes in fall 2017, university officials announced Friday.
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Heather Crist Paley loved the private Facebook page where she could seek out advice from other mothers on such topics as finding a good nanny and the safety of raw milk.
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A Santa Monica High School child-care center has reopened after a sudden closure earlier this week spurred by an infant’s measles diagnosis.
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Amid a California-centered measles outbreak, a Los Angeles pediatrician has told the parents of young unvaccinated patients: Get them vaccinated, or find a new doctor.
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Some of the biggest names in the national debate over vaccine safety were given the Hollywood treatment Wednesday at the premiere of a documentary challenging mainstream medicine’s denial that there’s a link between autism and childhood vaccines.
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Measles has been a scourge for centuries, afflicting millions of people.
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John Leddy was all set to send his 2-year-old daughter Vanessa to the YWCA Family Cooperative Preschool in Santa Monica recently when he and his wife decided at the last minute to ask about its measles vaccination rate.
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Can measles really kill you? Is the vaccine more dangerous than the disease?
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Early this morning, I posted about the newly vocal majority on vaccination—the parents who are willing to fight back against the anti-vaccination trend that has been implicated in the latest outbreak of measles.
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Up until this latest measles outbreak, it seemed as though the anti-vaccination parents and their enablers were the more vocal group.
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California’s two U.S. senators on Wednesday called on state officials to reconsider California’s policy on allowing exemptions to childhood vaccinations.
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A group of state lawmakers announced legislation Wednesday that would abolish an exemption from the mandate that children get vaccinated before they enter school if it conflicts with their parents’ personal beliefs.
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The California-centered measles outbreak has spread to Marin County, as the number of cases climbed to 107 in 10 California counties, seven other states and Mexico.
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While not exactly motherhood or apple pie, stopping the spread of communicable diseases would seem to be the rare issue that transcends political differences, even in these fiercely partisan times.
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President Obama on Sunday encouraged parents to vaccinate their children and said the U.S. is doing everything in its power to rescue a 26-year-old woman held by the Islamic State, speaking in a wide-ranging interview also covering football and politics.
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Fourteen babies younger than a year old were under voluntary quarantine Tuesday after an infant at a Santa Monica High child-care center was diagnosed with measles.
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Alarmed by the spread of disease as some parents decline to vaccinate their children, two state lawmakers plan legislation aimed at increasing the number of youngsters who have been immunized when they start school in California.
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Los Angeles County officials say the spread of measles appears to be slowing, but they’re concerned about low vaccination rates in some parts of the county.
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Two leading Republican presidential hopefuls waded into the argument over childhood vaccinations Monday, with Sen.
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Some parents have said they’re not anti-vaccine, but that they want to delay vaccines, or spread out shots, for fear of overwhelming a baby’s immune system.
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Why are vaccine rates so low at some California schools?
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Public health officials are warning that some physicians are missing diagnoses of measles cases.
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California added one more confirmed measles case over the weekend, but state public health officials have warned that it’s premature to declare a slowdown in an outbreak that has spread to 10 counties, seven states and Mexico.
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The battle to halt the spread of the measles outbreak that began at Disneyland has required both infectious disease expertise and a good amount of old-fashioned detective work.
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The California-centered measles outbreak has spread to Michigan, as the number of cases climbed to 95 in eight states and Mexico, officials said Wednesday.
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Almost 70 Palm Desert High School students who haven’t been fully immunized for measles are banned from classes for the next two weeks.
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Twenty Cal State Long Beach students were exposed to measles after they went on a field trip with an infected student during winter break, officials said.
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It was spring of 2014. Dr. Julia Shaklee Sammons looked around and saw trouble.
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Thirty babies have been placed under home isolation in Alameda County after possible exposure to measles linked to a holiday outbreak at Disneyland last month.
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Officials have now confirmed at least 87 cases of measles in seven states and Mexico, as the outbreak centered in California continues to spread.
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Gary Monahan remembers his son’s temperature spiking to 102 degrees when he was vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella.
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Santa Monica High School students and parents were alerted Friday night that a freshman baseball coach had been diagnosed with measles, as the California-centered outbreak continued to spread to other states and Mexico.
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The growing measles outbreak that began at Disneyland has caused public health officials to urge people get vaccinated if they already haven’t received the shots.
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The number of California parents who cite personal beliefs in refusing to vaccinate their kindergartners dropped in 2014 for the first time in a dozen years, according to a Times data analysis.
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To the editor: I was born in 1946.
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Cal State Channel Islands officials confirmed Friday that a student living off campus has been diagnosed with measles.
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Take a bunch of people, pack them into a space and watch some get frighteningly ill.
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The measles outbreak centered in California continues to expand, with officials now confirming 78 cases of the illness in seven states and Mexico.
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As the measles outbreak that started at Disneyland grew to at least 70 cases Wednesday, much of the attention has focused on how the vast majority of patients were not vaccinated for the highly contagious disease.
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Health officials have long been frustrated with the increasing number of parents who decline to have their children vaccinated.
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There are now 67 confirmed cases of measles in an outbreak centered in California, health officials said.
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Struggling to contain a growing measles outbreak that started at Disneyland a month ago, Orange County health officials ordered about two dozen high school students without proof of immunization to stay away from campus.
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Disneyland Resort employees who had contact with measles-stricken coworkers have been asked to stay home unless they can show they’ve been vaccinated or take a blood test to show they’re immune, Disney officials told the Los Angeles Times.
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Several employees at Disneyland have been diagnosed with measles, health officials confirmed Tuesday, as the total number of measles cases in the California-centered outbreak rose to 53.
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The most recent outbreak of measles, set off by an unvaccinated visitor to Disneyland, may be contained before it spreads too far.
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Health officials in Orange, San Diego, and San Bernardino counties and the city of Long Beach released a list of locations where infected measles patients have been: Orange County 1/8/2015 Huntington Beach High School 1905 Main St., Huntington Beach, CA 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 1/7/2015 Huntington Beach High School 1905 Main St., Huntington Beach, CA 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 1/7/2015 Spectrum Pharmacy 18 Endeavor, Irvine, CA 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 1/6/2015 Huntington Beach High School 1905 Main St., Huntington Beach, CA 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 1/6/2015 Target Store Starbucks and Pharmacy 3750 Barranca Parkway, Irvine, CA 8:40 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. 1/5/2015 CHOC Children’s Hospital Emergency Department 1201 W.
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Parents with students at Huntington Beach High School have been warned that a student infected with measles was recently on campus, and unvaccinated students reportedly are being kept out of school for three weeks.
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Three new cases of suspected measles are being investigated, San Diego County health officials said Monday.
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As a measles outbreak spreads rapidly across Southern California and beyond, scientists have identified clusters of under-immunization in communities in 13 counties in the northern portion of the state.
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The measles outbreak that began at Disneyland during the holiday season is now spreading beyond people who contracted the disease at the theme park, with those patients now exposing others after they arrived back in their hometowns, health officials said Saturday.
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The measles outbreak centered in California is rapidly expanding, with officials now confirming 51 cases of the illness -- nearly double the number reported Tuesday -- and warning that more people will probably fall sick with the highly contagious virus.
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The number of confirmed cases of measles in Orange County has risen to 16, prompting health officials to predict Friday that the outbreak will continue to spread.
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The measles outbreak that began at Disneyland during the holiday season is now spreading beyond people who contracted the disease at the theme park, with those patients now exposing others after returning to their hometowns, health officials said Saturday.
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San Diego County now has 10 confirmed cases of measles, all with ties to Disneyland, the county Health and Human Services Agency announced late Thursday.
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A wave of measles cases traced to Disneyland threatens to spread farther.
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The measles outbreak happened at a vulnerable place and at a bad moment.
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A medical clinic in suburban La Mesa was immediately closed Wednesday when five people arrived with symptoms of measles, a clinic spokeswoman said.
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It may have begun with a sneeze at Disneyland.
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Orange County authorities Friday reported two more cases of measles and repeated warnings that the outbreak that began at Disneyland is expected to continue to spread.
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The measles outbreak originating in Disneyland has spread farther -- to 22 cases statewide -- with health officials Monday warning about possible exposure from more confirmed cases in San Bernardino and Long Beach.
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The issue of measles in California suddenly generated national headlines Wednesday thanks to a Disney connection.
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As the Disneyland measles outbreak grows, officials say it’s part of a larger battle against the disease.
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A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland has spread, bringing the statewide total to a dozen cases and prompting Orange County health officials to issue public warnings about possible exposure.
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The California Department of Public Health is investigating nine measles cases tied to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park, officials said Wednesday.
