The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is concerned about the upcoming spring travel season spreading the airborne disease.
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Measles is a 'heat-seeking missile' experts warn as Florida outbreak grows
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... An eighth case, including the first in a child under age 5, follows the state's controversial surgeon general's decision to let parents decide whether to quarantine children or keep them in school.
The Florida measles outbreak is expanding. As of Monday, health officials in Broward County confirmed an eighth case of the virus, including one in a child under age 5.
It's unknown what connection the youngest measles patient has to Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale, where most of the cases have been identified. The spread beyond school-age kids was expected.
Cases are "not going to stay contained just to that one school, not when a virus is this infectious," said Dr. David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that as of Friday there have been at least 35 measles cases in 15 states in 2024 -- most related to international travel. In January, there were nine measles cases in Pennsylvania, eight of them in Philadelphia. (If there are no more cases reported there as of early next week, the Philadelphia outbreak will be declared over.) Late Friday, Michigan's health department announced that it, too, had identified a measles case " its first since 2019.
Florida's outbreak is the largest in the U.S. right now.
And what Florida's health officials are doing -- or not doing -- is drawing fire from experts who study the way diseases spread. ...
Can you provide the health data saying that those who went to Florida on Spring Break in 2020 did not get sick from COVID?
The deaths occurred from those that returned from spring break and spread it to the vulnerable. The cell phone tracking data matched the spread and gave us a stunning image of what happened. Just like Sturgis.
Remember Texas' Lt. Gov Patrick saying that old people dying is a fair price to pay for our youth to have an economic future?
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