In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — long home to Amish communities that hold medicine at arm's length — measles has returned with lethal force, claiming two infant lives and infecting 624 people across the state. The disease, declared eliminated from American soil in 2000, has found its opening in the gaps left by vaccine hesitancy, moving through close-knit communities with the efficiency that only the unprotected allow. These deaths are not a failure of science, but a reminder that the distance between a preventable tragedy and an actual one is measured in trust, communication, and the fragi
Pennsylvania measles outbreak kills 2 infants as cases surge to 624
Two infants died from measles-associated complications in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.