NY measles spread prompts 'disaster' emergency. It didn't have to be this way, health commissioner says.

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Health · New York · October 12, 2026

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A child receiving a mumps, measles and rubella vaccination. The state health commissioner says the disease outbreak is wholly preventable.

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