The reason that we don’t get hundreds of cases like we did way in the past, before vaccination, is because of vaccination.”

School officials are working to prevent a measles outbreak after a Miami-Dade County student tested positive​ for the disease, putting several parents on high alert.

A teenager in Miami-Dade has a confirmed cases of measles, the first such infection in Florida since a small outbreak of the disease in South Florida in 2024. The infection was reported on a Florida Department of Health database for Florida’s infectious and reportable diseases.

The state of Florida has reported its first measles case for 2025 in Miami-Dade Public Schools. Amid the measles outbreak this year, experts note the importance of vaccination.

A Florida high school student has been diagnosed with measles in the first reported case this year in Miami-Dade County, according to a school email.

Parents learned of one student with the disease on Tuesday. School district and state health officials say they are continuing to monitor for any potential outbreak.

A Miami high schooler came down with measles, a doctor said Tuesday. It's the first known case of measles in Florida.

Florida has recorded its first measles case of the year amid an outbreak in states across the country. A student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pinecrest has been diagnosed with the disease, according to an email seen by CBS News Miami. Newsweek has contacted the Miami-Dade County Health Department for comment via email.

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres provided an update Thursday on the one case of measles at Palmetto Senior High School, saying Thursday that “everything is very stable.”