A news article on spiegel.de reports the largest measles outbreak in the United States in over 35 years, with 5182 cases confirmed in 2026 and, according to the authorities, an infant in Wisconsin dead of the disease — the first such death there since 1990. The CDC recorded four measles deaths in 2026, New York reported its first in 30 years, and Spiegel comments that anti-vaccination propaganda, whose instigators include Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., endangers diseases like measles staying rare.