In Philadelphia this week, health officials issued a second measles exposure warning — this time at the city's international airport — following an earlier alert tied to the neonatal intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The convergence of two separate exposure sites within the same period suggests a disease once declared eliminated from American life may be quietly reasserting itself in the gaps left by declining vaccination rates. Measles does not negotiate with complacency; in a dense, well-traveled city, the distance between a single case and a public health crisis is
Second Measles Exposure Reported at Philadelphia International Airport
Potential exposure to measles affecting vulnerable populations including neonates in NICU care.