School reports Florida's first measles case in 2025

Florida alerts first measles case of year in public school as experts stress vaccination
The state of Florida has reported its first measles case for 2025 in Miami-Dade Public Schools. Amid the measles outbreak this year, experts note the importance of vaccination.
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Palmetto High School is the first person in Florida confirmed to have measles, the highly contagious respiratory disease.
Measles Outbreak Spreads to Florida
Florida has recorded its first measles case of the year amid an outbreak in states across the country. A student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest has been diagnosed with the disease, according to an email seen by CBS News Miami. Newsweek has contacted the Miami-Dade County Health Department for comment via email.
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The reason that we don’t get hundreds of cases like we did way in the past, before vaccination, is because of vaccination.”
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A teenager in Miami-Dade has a confirmed cases of measles, the first such infection in Florida since a small outbreak of the disease in South Florida in 2024. The infection was reported on a Florida Department of Health database for Florida’s infectious and reportable diseases.
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Miami High School Rumored To Be In the Middle of a Measles Outbreak
According to sources, Miami Palmetto Senior High School sent a warning to parents of the school after it was hit with a measles outbreak.
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