COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- As of today, there are more than 5,000 cases of measles in the country, the most the country has seen in 35 years.

Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Health informed the public that there was a confirmed case of measles in Weld County.

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With 330 new infections reported this week, confirmed measles cases in the United States have reached 5,182, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This marks the 13th straight week the nation has seen a triple-digit increase in measles cases reported by the CDC.

Washington state reported a bird flu death this month in a person who had exposure to an infected dairy cow. In the spring of 2024, it felt like the U.S. was on the cusp of a biological disaster. A strain of bird flu, long circulating in birds, had spilled over into a new host: dairy cows.

A measles outbreak at an October 2024 wedding in New Brunswick contributed to the virus reestablishing itself in Canada, according to a recent analysis in The BMJ, a London-based medical journal.

As the measles outbreak sweeping Pennsylvania hits another record — the state’s largest in nearly a half-century — a sixth person has died after contracting the disease.

Diagnostic preparedness gaps exposed by the DRC's hashtag#Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the DRC. Although the pathogen has been recognized for nearly two decades, ecosystem-wide gaps delayed outbreak recognition and public health response.

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A dairy farm worker in Yakima County, Washington, has died from bird flu, marking the first such fatality in the United States this year. The worker, who had underlying health conditions, contracted the virus from infected dairy cows, according to CNN. This is the third bird flu-related death in the U.S. since 2024, when the virus was first detected in dairy cattle.

On Oct. 1, newly imposed Medicaid legislation under H.R.1, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, went into effect and Medicaid coverage for immigrants of various statuses was repealed across the country. A team of students from the School of Public Health are working to inform Rhode Islanders about the changes and help them navigate new regulations.

A person in Yakima County, Washington, who caught bird flu after being exposed to infected dairy cows has died following a severe illness, county health officials said Sunday.

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A person in Yakima County, Washington, died on Sunday after contracting bird flu from infected cows at a dairy, marking the first fatality from the disease in the United States in 2026.

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With Project Coast’s records destroyed or missing, researchers estimate that its lead officer, Wouter Basson, led a team of about 20 scientists and 145 employees at the height of its operations. He recruited and carefully selected his science team largely from Afrikaans-language universities, was a persuasive and skilled manager, and put allegiance to a racial killing programme ahead of his ethical obligations as a physician.

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