My son’s death during a college football workout was preventable. Lessons must be learned - The Guardian

Preventable infectious diseases continue to climb worldwide amid stalled progress with immunization campaigns, shifts in vaccine acceptance, and reductions in public health funding. In 2026, measles continues to spread in North America, with case counts already exceeding those from all of 2025. Hotspots include South Carolina, Utah, and Pennsylvania, which has confirmed five measles-associated deaths and surpassed 1,000 infections as of October 2026. According to new data from the CDC, U. S. vaccine exemptions—driven by personal or religious exemptions—are at an all-time high, after increasing 18% between the 2024-25 school year and the 2025-26 school year. The U. S. incidents extend the emergency that surfaced in early 2025, after an outbreak in Texas sparked the country's largest bout of measles in the United States in three decades and fueled a deadly outbreak in northern Mexico.