Six-week-old infant dies of measles in Pennsylvania as cases hit 30-year high

A six-week-old infant died from measles in Pennsylvania, representing a preventable death during a measles resurgence.

In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a six-week-old child — too young to be vaccinated — has died from measles, a disease that a generation of public health work had nearly erased from American life. The death arrives as the United States records more than 3,000 measles cases, the highest toll in thirty years, a number that reflects not only the return of a preventable illness but the erosion of the collective immunity that once held it at bay. What makes this moment particularly grave is not only the loss of one infant life, but reports suggesting that political pressure may be shaping what the CDC is

Six-week-old infant dies of measles in Pennsylvania as cases hit 30-year high

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