ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - How hospitals, clinics in Pennsylvania are responding to the measles outbreak
Doctors working in measles-hit areas of Pennsylvania discuss with ABC News how they are responding as the state battles an outbreak.
Doctors working in measles-hit areas of Pennsylvania discuss with ABC News how they are responding as the state battles an outbreak.
The U.S. has seen more measles deaths in the last two years than the combined total over the previous three decades.
This year has become the deadliest year for measles in the United States in decades.
A working horse in a Texas border county has tested positive for the New World screwworm, the first confirmed equine case in the United States this century, as the parasite's northward spread from Mexico shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. Equestrian Federation confirmed the infestation on the hind limb of the horse in Presidio […] The post Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas horse for first time this century appeared first on American Almanac .
A working horse in a Texas border county has tested positive for the New World screwworm, the first confirmed equine case in the United States this century, as the parasite's northward spread from Mexico shows no sign of slowing. The U.S. Equestrian Federation confirmed the infestation on the hind limb of the horse in Presidio County, a remote stretch of West Texas that sits directly on the Mexican border. The case marks a grim milestone in an outbreak that began earlier this year when an infected cow turned up in Zavala County, roughly 120 miles southwest of San Antonio. Since then, 48 screwworm cases have been confirmed across Texas and one in New Mexico, that one on a dog, The Guardian reported . The New World screwworm is not a worm…Open
Pennsylvania has recorded a total of four measles-associated deaths this year, state health officials said.
So far in 2026, DOH has confirmed 693 measles cases in 38 counties in the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed two additional measles-related deaths on Tuesday.
A 40-year-old woman who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has died from measles complications, the county coroner confirmed Sunday. It's the third measles-associated death in a fast-growing outbreak that's sparked a political clash between state and federal officials. CNN's Jacqueline Howard reports.
Chile has become the first South American country to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies to humans, according to the World Health Organization