Philadelphia health officials warn of measles exposure at airport and hospital

In a city built on movement and connection, Philadelphia now confronts the cost of that openness: measles, a disease once thought vanquished, has been detected at its international airport and within the walls of a children's hospital caring for its most defenseless patients. Four Pennsylvanians have already died in the current outbreak, a toll that reflects both the virus's ancient lethality and the modern erosion of the vaccination coverage that once held it at bay. The dual exposures — one in a space of transit, one in a sanctuary of healing — remind us that a disease does not distinguish b