The Arkansas Department of Health announced that two positive cases of measles have now been identified in Central Arkansas.

https://www.thv11.com/article/news/health/first-measles-cases-reported-arkansas-since-2018/91-1bd9ee60-678c-4518-9ed8-223362893aae

To help stop the spread of the disease

Just days after reporting its first measles case of the year, in a child, the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) yesterday reported five more related cases.

The newly reported patients include three children and two adults who, like the first patient, are from Allen County in the northeast part of the state, an area that includes Fort Wayne.

The IDOH said the four minors were unvaccinated, and the adults' vaccination status is unknown ...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/indiana-reports-measles-outbreak-cases-rise-ohio-and-michigan

A measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state’s overall count in double digits across four counties.

The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, and Texas is reporting the majority of them with 505 ...

https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe

More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona.

So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots.

Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota, and Washington, among other places.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in COVID-related funds for state and local health departments in late March ...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5357471/measles-outbreak-hhs-federal-budget-cuts-vaccine-clinics

Much of the outbreak is concentrated in the districts of Texas House leaders, including Speaker Dustin Burrows. The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.”

By Kayla Guo
April 9, 2025
5 AM Central

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/texas-measles-legislation-vaccines/