The Seattle-King County Health Department says some people at Sea- Tac Airport may have been infected with measles from another traveler on March 26.

It seems that Science can sometimes be as blind as Justice-- and mute as well. I refer to the recent study published in the UK by Baird, et al., Measles vaccination and antibody response in autism spectrum disorders.

Five more children have tested positive for measles in San Diego, bringing to 11 the total number in the recent outbreak, authorities reported. Health officials are awaiting test results on a twelfth child.

250 passengers of a San Diego – Honolulu flight are searched by Hawaiian health officials on suspicion of measles infection. The pesthole of the disease was named an infected baby, later isolated at a military hospital in Hawaii.

Researchers say measles, which has been successfully controlled in most countries thanks to vaccination, remains a killer disease in Niger, in part because of migration triggered by the rainy season. VOA's Jessica Berman reports from Washington health workers are calling for better surveillance and cooperation between public health workers and the government to control measles outbreaks.

Measles epidemics in Niger fluctuate wildly from one season to another but the timing of the outbreaks always coincides with the end of the annual rainy season, according to an international team of researchers.