measles

A member of Goucher College's Board of Trustees is spending millions of dollars funding anti-vaccination movements, according to a Washington Post report.

By Phil Davis

Jun 21, 2019

Baltimore's Jewish Orthodox community had been fighting for four years to mitigate anti-vaxxers' influence on the community. Now there's added urgency.

The case case has been confirmed in a person in the Northwest Baltimore region.

LifeBridge Health is lifting its ban on youth visitors under age 14 after the hospital halted minors from visiting after a series of measles cases were reported in the Pikesville area.

By Phil Davis

May 6, 2019

Immunization is a medical miracle that is key to the steady progress in fighting the world’s communicable diseases. Each year immunizations prevent more than 2.5 million deaths just through vaccination against four diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) and measles.

A fourth measles case has been confirmed in a person in the Pikesville area, the Maryland Department of Health reports. Public health officials had said the virus is highly contagious and other cases were possible since the first case was reported April 5.

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 19, 2019

Maryland health officials have confirmed a third case of measles in Maryland.

By Sarah Meehan

Apr 17, 2019

A second Maryland resident has tested positive for measles, the highly contagious viral infection that has been spreading rapidly across the country, state health officials said Tuesday. 

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 16, 2019

A case of measles has been confirmed in Maryland, and the Maryland Department of Health has issued a warning for those who might have been exposed to the infectious respiratory disease.

Sinai Hospital is asking children under age 14 to avoid the campus unless the have an appointment after a child was diagnosed with measles last week.

By Sarah Meehan

Apr 10, 2019

A group of local Jewish spiritual leaders, schools and organizations is calling for vigilance in vaccination after a child in Pikesville was diagnosed with measles.

By Sarah Meehan

Apr 10, 2019

Maryland health officials confirmed Friday that the state has logged its first case of measles, a highly contagious viral infection that has been spreading in several other states in numbers not seen in decades. 

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 5, 2019

As measles outbreaks continue to grow, Maryland should strengthen rules that allow people to opt out of getting their children vaccinated because of religious reasons.

The St. Mary's County Health Department is investigating a suspected measles case.

By Sarah Meehan

Mar 5, 2019

In this age of distrust and fear — of “fake news” and nearly universal access to the internet, which can back up any “alternative facts” — the population of parents opposed to vaccinations appears to be growing and becoming more dangerous to public health.

Montgomery County health officials have confirmed a case of measles and are alerting those who have not been vaccinated about possible exposure.

By Catherine Rentz

May 24, 2018

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is alerting people to the risk of possible measles exposure in Prince George's County. While those who have had at least one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine are at low risk of acquiring measles, it is highly contagious among the unvaccinated, spreading through the air due to coughing and sneezing.

A patient who contracted measles overseas, but wasn't diagnosed until days after coming to the United States, could have potentially exposed people to the disease, health officials said.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

May 22, 2017

According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for CNN, "There are some topics that seem to lend themselves appropriately to opinion pages.

We can save lives by making vaccines available to all children everywhere. Currently, there is bipartisan legislation in Congress that would do just that, the Reach Every Mother and Child Act of 2015 (S. 1911/H.R. 3706). The bill, supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, coordinates a U.S. government strategy to accelerate the reduction of preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths worldwide, helping the United States achieve its commitment to work with countries around the globe to

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Baltimore County child tests negative for measles after hospital visit

By Meredith Cohn

Aug 17, 2015

Baltimore County child is tested for measles after visiting city hospital with symptoms

By Meredith Cohn

Aug 7, 2015

When we as the region's doctors speak to the public about vaccines, it's about more than individual health. It's about the health of our community. It's about our mutual obligation to one other. It's about the value of vaccines to safeguard the future of Baltimore.

After the worst month for measles in more than two decades, public health officials gathered at the Johns Hopkins University on Monday to talk about ways to prevent 2015 from becoming the worst year.

By Meredith Cohn

Feb 9, 2015

Carroll County and Maryland on the whole are well-vaccinated against measles, but officials say to take nothing for granted

The recent revelations concerning outbreaks of measles in parts of our nation are troubling from a public health perspective. They also point out however, an equally troubling trend, namely that despite the fact that we are living in the 21st Century, far too many of our citizens make critical decisions in their lives based not on science but on ignorance, paranoia and superstition.

Measles outbreak demonstrates need for vaccinations — except to the know-nothings running for president

Schoolchildren without proper vaccinations could lead to major outbreaks of disease

A growing measles outbreak linked to Disneyland in Southern California has touched a nerve with health officials in Maryland and across the country who are warning about a rebound in diseases that had been rendered extremely rare.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 30, 2015

A Baltimore 12-month-old with a suspected case of measles, a highly contagious respiratory disease, does not have the virus, city health officials said Thursday.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 29, 2015

The Baltimore Health Department is investigating a possible measles case in an infant — which could be the first documented case in the city in the last decade.

Unfortunately — and often all too tragically— a growing percentage of students enter or return to school without the most important back to school requirement: vaccinations. These students are part of a new generation vulnerable to childhood diseases that have long since been under control but are now making a comeback due to parental misinformation and bad science.

Betsey R. Spragins, who was a member of the original Women's Hospital Foundation board at Greater Baltimore Medical Center where she volunteered for 40 years, died Monday of heart failure at the Broadmead retirement community in Hunt Valley. She was 91.

Scientists believe a virus similar to measles in humans is responsible for an unusual die-off in bottlenose dolphins along the Mid-Atlantic coast. The death toll has continued to rise in August and could remain a threat to the dolphin population through next spring, the scientists said.

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Seven bottlenose dolphins have washed up dead on Maryland shores in recent weeks, part of a bigger mystery along the mid-Atlantic coast and Chesapeake Bay that has alarmed scientists working to solve more than 120 dolphin deaths since June.

Subsidized schools for at-risk kids

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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley warn that Maryland will be hit hard by the indiscriminate budget cuts known as sequestration.

A new exhibit, "Stationed in Laurel: Our Civil War Story," opened Feb. 3 at the Laurel Museum and captures that segment of Laurel's history. In September, a mini-exhibit was displayed at the museum that gave a partial account of Laurel's Civil War past. Museum director Lindsey Baker said they decided to expand that theme for this year's major exhibit because of the response that one attracted.

Government does good? In reality, it's efforts often do more harm

Baltimoreans' tax dollars have directly improved public health on a range of issues, from AIDS to lead paint to measles

Opponents of same-sex marriage falsely claim schools will teach children to be gay

Stay on top of new back-to-school health guidelines about everything from germs and vaccines to bullying and concussions.

Pneumonia, infectious diseases cause the most death in those younger than five