Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease. Texas health officials say the school-aged child, not vaccinated, and was hospitalized last week. Now, Alabama and Florida health officials are sounding the alarm.

Once again, Florida Surgeon General Jospeh Ladapo is emphasizing parents’ rights to send their kids to school unvaccinated amid a report Tuesday of a measles case in a Miami-Dade County high school. Ladapo insisted during a press conference in Tampa that his approach this time would be the same as last year,

As an outbreak of measles in Texas has sickened more than 100 people and resulted in the death of an unvaccinated child, Florida has reported its first case of 2025. The Miami Dade School District confirmed Tuesday in a letter to parents that a student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School was diagnosed with measles.

Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses and there is now one reported case in Florida. It’s been confirmed at a high school in Miami–Dade.

Amid an alarming outbreak in Texas, Florida has apparently joined the fray, according to a number of media sources.

And now a case has officially been confirmed in a Florida school. According to WFOR, Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest sent an email to parents warning that an unidentified student had been diagnosed with measles,

Most of the measles cases reported so far this year are in Texas, where health officials are trying to clamp down on a growing outbreak that has sickened more than 150 people. Other states have also recorded measles cases though they trail far behind Texas, including New Mexico, California and New York City.