Reuters reports:
The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States' measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run after determining the country failed to halt continuous transmission of the highly contagious virus for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday...
The reported decision by the Americas branch of the World Health Organization comes as the US battles the highest number of measles cases it has seen in more than three decades. Some 7,500 people in the US have been infected with measles and 13 have died since 2025. That period coincides with falling immunization rates and rising vaccine hesitancy under US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has for years spread doubts, without scientific evidence, about the safety of measles vaccines...
Canada, Spain and the UK recently lost measles-elimination status after review by WHO experts....
"It is a fully preventable disease. It is unconscionable that we have this amount of measles," said Noel Brewer, a public health professor at the University of North Carolina... William Moss, an epidemiology professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said loss of measles elimination was a hit to the United States' reputation as a public health powerhouse... For the average American, he added, it means that the United States will continue to have large outbreaks, putting people at risk of disease, hospitalization and death.
The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States' measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run after determining the country failed to halt continuous transmission of the highly contagious virus for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday...
The reported decision by the Americas branch of the World Health Organization comes as the US battles the highest number of measles cases it has seen in more than three decades. Some 7,500 people in the US have been infected with measles and 13 have died since 2025. That period coincides with falling immunization rates and rising vaccine hesitancy under US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has for years spread doubts, without scientific evidence, about the safety of measles vaccines...
Canada, Spain and the UK recently lost measles-elimination status after review by WHO experts....
"It is a fully preventable disease. It is unconscionable that we have this amount of measles," said Noel Brewer, a public health professor at the University of North Carolina... William Moss, an epidemiology professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said loss of measles elimination was a hit to the United States' reputation as a public health powerhouse... For the average American, he added, it means that the United States will continue to have large outbreaks, putting people at risk of disease, hospitalization and death.
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Crater Cove from Dobroyd Lookout. At Dobroyd Headland, in Balgowlah Heights NSW Australia. During the Spit Bridge to Manly Coastal Walk.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De veiling van het werk Bloeiende kastanjebomen van Vincent van Gogh door Sotheby's is problematisch geworden, omdat het werk in de nazitijd mogelijk onder dwang is verkocht. Dat meldt de BBC.
Het is de bedoeling dat het schilderij woensdag in New York onder de hamer gaat. De geraamde opbrengst is 180 miljoen dollar (ruim 160 miljoen euro).
Het werk was eigendom van de Duitse familie Fischer. Nazaten van de familie zeggen dat het tijdens de opkomst van de nazi's mogelijk onder dwang is verkocht.
Sotheby's zegt dat eigen onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat dit niet het geval is, maar streeft een oplossing in overleg met de nazaten van de familie Fischer na.
Volgens een advocaat van de familie is het verkocht wegens financiƫle problemen van de familie Fischer onder de nazi's.
DE BILT (ANP) - In de provincies Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe en in het noorden van Overijssel komt in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag dichte mist voor. Het KNMI heeft code geel afgegeven.
Naar verwachting trekt de mist om 04.00 uur zondagochtend op.
Het KNMI waarschuwt voor vertragingen op de weg en adviseert automobilisten extra afstand te houden en langzamer te rijden. Bij zicht minder dan 200 meter moeten de mistlampen aan de voorkant van de auto aan en bij zicht minder dan 50 meter die aan de achterkant ook.
KHAN YOUNIS (ANP/RTR) - Hamas-commandant Samir Abu Younis is om het leven gekomen bij een Israƫlisch bombardement in Khan Younis in de Gazastrook. Dat zeiden bronnen binnen Hamas tegen persbureau Reuters.
De Israƫlische strijdkrachten zelf meldden in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag dat ze een commandant van Hamas hadden aangevallen.
Abu Younis zou onder vuur zijn genomen in een straat in Khan Younis. Daar raakten ook mensen gewond.
Sinds het staakt-het-vuren van oktober 2025 wordt er niet meer hevig gevochten, maar Israƫl valt nog steeds aan in Gaza. Daarbij zijn volgens de plaatselijke autoriteiten zeker 1600 mensen om het leven gekomen.
Deputy prime minister says change would be a massive step but ādeserves proper consideration and scrutinyā
The government has said it will consider calls to change the age of consent after a woman waived her right to anonymity to publicly claim she was raped by Russell Brand as a 16-year-old schoolgirl.
Mia Latter, now 37, alleged she had been orally raped by the jailed comedian when she was a teenager and he was 30 years old.
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