{"id":98537,"date":"2025-12-17T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98537\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:21:07","slug":"the-metro-measles-case-confirmed-in-oakland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/98537\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metro: Measles case confirmed in Oakland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child has been diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oakgov.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/2239\/2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">measles in Oakland County<\/a>. DMC\u00a0Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township has been identified as the likely site of exposure.<\/p>\n<p>People who were in the Emergency Department of the hospital on Dec.\u00a0 7, 2025\u00a0 between 7:20 p.m. and 11:10 p.m. may have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Guzman, Oakland County Health Officer, told The Metro the child was not vaccinated for measles and had recently traveled domestically.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine recommendations changing at CDC, FDA<\/p>\n<p>This follows a series of major changes to federal vaccine recommendations and guidelines, made under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is a vaccine skeptic and his views are becoming policy at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) both of which are under his supervision.<\/p>\n<p>These changes include loosening recommendations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/12\/05\/nx-s1-5634004\/cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccine-acip-meeting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infants and toddlers regarding hepatitis B<\/a>, chickenpox, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR).<\/p>\n<p>At the FDA, Vinay Prasad, the chief medical officer and head of evaluation and testing, issued a statement forecasting a more time and cost-intensive process for new vaccine approvals. Members of the medical community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2517497\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including former FDA officials<\/a>, have shared concerns for public health, saying the proposed changes would make thoroughly tested and safe annual vaccines like the flu shot too expensive and time consuming to adapt to new versions of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Teena Chopra is a professor of infectious diseases\u00a0and Assistant Dean of professional development in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University .Kate Guzman \u00a0is Oakland County\u2019s health officer.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child has been diagnosed with measles in Oakland County. DMC\u00a0Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in Commerce Township has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[53248,53798,143,904,145,144,4720,5405],"class_list":["post-98537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-measles","tag-mmr","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-public-health","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}