{"id":7304,"date":"2026-11-03T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/new-york-records-first-measles-related-death-in-30-years\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:16:08","slug":"new-york-records-first-measles-related-death-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/new-york-records-first-measles-related-death-in-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New York records first measles-related death in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68.499443826474\">\n<p>A child in New York died after contracting measles, marking the state\u2019s first death linked to the disease in 30 years, authorities said on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>The child died in Lewis County in the north of New York, according to county and state health authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am heartbroken to learn that a child in Lewis County has died after contracting measles,\u201d New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mother and grandmother, I cannot imagine what this family is going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hochul, a Democrat, appeared to connect the death to Trump administration health policies, saying it was \u201ca devastating reminder of what\u2019s at stake when Washington deliberately erodes decades of progress in protecting Americans from preventable illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States is facing its worst measles outbreak in 35 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>As of October 29, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,834 cases in 47 states.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul declared a disaster emergency in New York in October, following measles outbreaks in the state and neighbouring states. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Measles was declared eradicated in the US in 2000 after years of effective vaccination campaigns.\n<\/p>\n<p>But the illness has made a worrying comeback in recent years as vaccine scepticism rises alongside a growing mistrust of health authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>Measles causes fever, respiratory symptoms, painful rashes and, in severe cases, pneumonia and brain inflammation, which can lead to death.\n<\/p>\n<p>The disease continues to claim tens of thousands of lives around the world every year.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#acd8c4c9c9c8c5d8c3deecdcd9c2cfc4c2cb82cfc3c1\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"60140805050409140f122010150e03080e074e030f0d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A child in New York died after contracting measles, marking the state\u2019s first death linked to the disease in 30 years, authorities said on Monday. The child died in Lewis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}