A six-week-old infant in Pennsylvania has died of measles — too young to be vaccinated, too small to survive a disease that a generation of Americans had come to regard as conquered. The death arrives at the peak of the nation's worst current measles outbreak, resurrecting a virus that once killed hundreds of American children annually before the vaccine era. Rather than uniting around the tragedy, public figures have moved quickly to assign blame, leaving the deeper question — how a preventable disease reclaimed such a foothold — largely unasked in the noise of political recrimination.
RFK Jr. Acknowledges Pennsylvania Measles Death, Disputes Governor's Response
A 6-week-old infant died from measles in Pennsylvania, representing a direct fatality in the nation's worst ongoing outbreak.