California
Some are sounding the alarm regarding Trump’s public health picks, concerned that the nominees’ vaccine skepticism could jeopardize the nation’s ability to respond to infectious threats.
Health officials warned Thursday that people who were at Los Angeles International Airport and Children’s Hospital of Orange County in recent days may have been exposed to measles.
Letters to the Editor
Notice of potential measles exposures. Testing raw milk for bird flu. Vehicle safety recalls. Those who oppose government regulation might want to reconsider.
Business
Putting enemies of science in charge of science policy is a formula for mass injury and death, history reminds us.
Inmates at several prisons are under quarantine and being monitored by medical personnel, while prisoners and staff members are being offered vaccinations and masks to help limit their exposure, corrections officials said.
Opinion
An advisor to Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., petitioned the government to withdraw approval of the polio vaccine.
Yet another reason to fear a Trump and Vance victory: unleashing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the country’s public health agencies.
The outbreak has infected 18 people in the jail since Oct. 22, when at least one inmate unaware he was infected with the virus was housed at the jail, officials say.
A recently arrived traveler at Los Angeles International Airport is the source of the first case of measles in L.A. County since 2020.
A pediatrician says while it’s true that vaccine-hesitant parents pose risks, the focus should be on the vast majority who vaccinate their children.