Arizona fighting its worst measles outbreak in nearly a decade [View all]

By Morgan Fischer
September 5, 2025

The worst Arizona measles outbreak in almost a decade keeps getting worse, as cases multiply in a small town on the Utah border where very few children have been vaccinated against the disease.

Colorado City, a town of about 3,300 people not far from the Grand Canyon’s north rim, is the epicenter of Arizona’s worst measles outbreak since 2016. Cases there doubled in a week, Arizona Department of Health Services data show. The youngest infected person is a 2-year-old ...

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