In Philadelphia this week, the ancient threat of measles surfaced in two of the most transient and tender spaces a modern city holds — an international airport, where thousands of lives briefly intersect, and a neonatal intensive care unit, where the newest and most fragile lives are just beginning. Health officials issued precautionary warnings, reminding a society that declared this disease eliminated a generation ago that immunity, like trust, must be actively maintained. The exposure speaks not only to the biology of a highly contagious virus, but to the quiet consequences of eroding vacci
Philadelphia health officials warn of measles exposure at airport and children's hospital
Newborns in CHOP's NICU are at elevated risk of severe measles complications due to their immunocompromised status.