Measles, whooping cough spike amid low vaccination rates

By: Tim Henderson

Outlets: Stateline

Published: May 29, 2026

Words: 807

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa.

Nationally there have been 1,983 measles cases this year, nearly the 2,288 total for all of 2025, which in itself was the worst year since 1991, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

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