An extreme estimate of the incidence of measles in Israel: up to 10,000 patients

11 month old baby girl A measles patient died from the Jerusalem area, and she is the 13th victim of the disease since the beginning of the outbreak in April 2025. The baby was transferred from Shaare Zedek Hospital to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, where she was connected to an Acmo machine, but did not survive the complications of the disease. The baby was not vaccinated nor did she suffer from any previous underlying diseases.

dictation Originally published on the Davidson Institute for Science Education website

The Ministry of Health recommends For all those living in outbreak areas, or traveling to them, to vaccinate babies over the age of six months with a preliminary dose for the first one-year-old vaccine dose, and also to avoid participating in multi-participant events in the outbreak areas if they have babies at home or unvaccinated children. It is important to remember that even those vaccinated with two doses may still in rare cases become infected and become infected, and the danger to unvaccinated children in such cases is enormous.

A total of 2,659 patients are known in Israel Since the beginning of the outbreak, when 878 of them were hospitalized. 23 are currently hospitalized, six of them in the intensive care unit. In view of the high hospitalization rates in relation to patients, unusually for a western country with an excellent health system like ours, it is estimated that the real number of patients is much higher. According to a conservative estimate it is at least 5,000-6,000 and may be much more, up to 10 thousand according to an extreme estimate. These are shocking figures for a small country like Israel.

In the United States the year 2025 is over with 2,144 confirmed measles cases, almost all of them in 49 outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control. For comparison, in the entire year 2024 there were only 285 patients across the United States, and only 16 outbreaks were detected then. The year 2025 was the worst since 1991, with three unvaccinated victims. And 1991 was only two years after the second dose of the measles vaccine was introduced.

Measles is now a serious global problem, and it is recommended that all those planning to board a flight make sure that they are indeed vaccinated with two doses as recommended. Babies can be given a preliminary dose starting at the age of six months and before the second dose for girls and children who have not yet received the first grade dose.

Pakistan wraps up the year 2025 with 31 polio caseswhich are a welcome decrease compared to 2024, So 74 patients were counted. The 31st case was finally diagnosed only in 2026. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries in the world where the wild polio virus still circulates and affects children, after all the other countries of the world managed to eradicate it by massively using weakened and killed vaccines against the disease.

There are still occasional outbreaks of polio viruses in the world that have evolved from the weakened viruses of the droplet vaccine, and this is due to a lack of adequate immunization coverage. These viruses that become violent again, may be dangerous in themselves, and they also need to be eradicated. But in Pakistan, as mentioned, they are still dealing with the original virus and are conducting vaccination campaigns all over the country. In this country it is also extremely dangerous to be members of the warehouse crew. Since the 1990s, more than 200 warehousemen and policemen guarding them have been killed there in attacks by gunmen steeped in conspiracies who are convinced that the purpose of vaccination is to sterilize Muslim children.