| ■ Japan boy baseball player caused U.S. measles cases | 2008.02.26 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A boy with measles who was on the Japanese team in last year's Little League World Series triggered a U.S. outbreak of the disease that sickened at least six other people, health officials said on Thursday. Measles cases were diagnosed in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Texas after the boy, age 12, traveled from Japan while ill with the highly contagious viral illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report that tracked the outbreak's course. "This outbreak highlights the need to maintain the highest possible vaccination coverage in the United States," the CDC said in the report. |