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US measles cases hit 35-year high with deaths reported

Rank
Ran: 22h
Updated: 6d ago
Closed
Outlets: 2
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

The Independent United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

The only language so far · English, 2 reports

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC.
Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Last article: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%

First movers

The Independent 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC
Al Jazeera +22h 26m

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 2 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English.
Timeline: Earliest article The Independent, 28 Sept 2026, 16:43 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 15:08 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Pennsylvania reports fifth measles-related death. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 16:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 15:08 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 2 outlets

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Europe 1 outlet

The Independent United Kingdom 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC
The number of measles cases in the US nears 3,700 — with a quarter in one state

Middle East 1 outlet

Al Jazeera Qatar 29 Sept, 15:08 UTC
CDC reports two measles deaths in US as cases hit 35-year high