March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns

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Source: NPR

February 8, 2026 7:06 PM ET


Health officials are warning that confirmed cases of measles may have spread at this year's National March for Life rally and concert in Washington, D.C. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators converged upon the National Mall and other locations in the nation's capital for the annual event at the end of January. The DC Department of Health says it's working to identify people who are at risk.

"DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious," the agency said in a press release on Sunday. "DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed."

Potential exposure sites from Jan. 21 to Feb. 2 include major transit such as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Union Station, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train and D.C.'s subway system, according to DC Health. The agency says infected individuals also visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic University.

Children's National Hospital issued a public health notice concerning potential exposure in its Emergency Department. The notice said a Virginia resident, who was confirmed to have measles, visited the department while contagious on Feb. 2.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/08/nx-s1-5705972/measles-march-for-life-dc-reagan-national-union-station-metro

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"March for Life"ers promoting and spreading death using preventable diseases.

[niyad]

1. What a disaster they will be spreading.

[Scrivener7]

2. My reaction to this confirms to me that I am a terrible, terrible person.

[Easterncedar]

7. Hah. That was exactly my second thought after reading the headline, too!

Although I am very sorry for all the people in the viral downstream of them.

[Scrivener7]

9. Yes, definitely. They're hurting all of us, but there's some satisfaction that they're hurting themselves first.

[IronLionZion]

3. Any conservative gathering is likely to have unvaccinated people these days

We've seen spikes after the holidays and may see more after Superb Owl parties.

[Javaman]

4. Irony is dead. nt

[lastlib]

5. Darwin Awards to go around?

Couldn't happen to a "nicer" bunch.......... ( me)

[tanyev]

6. An event attended by anti-vaxxers from nearly every state.

Let’s see how that plays out.

[Herself]

8. Left over blankets?

When YKYK

[Blue Dotty]

10. The Walking brain dead

Walking, talking WMDs, human bio-weapons.

[EuterpeThelo]

11. How very

pro-life of them to turn up and spread a deadly disease.

[twodogsbarking]

12. Just so they know because they obviously don't.

"Exponentially" means increasing or decreasing at a rate that becomes faster and faster over time, often described as a "sharp" or "very rapid" growth, originating from mathematics where a variable is raised to a power (an exponent), like doubling repeatedly (1, 2, 4, 8, 16). It describes a situation where the rate of growth itself grows, leading to huge increases very quickly, such as in measles.

[Deep State Witch]

13. Pro-Life

for infectious diseases!

[kimbutgar]

14. Couldn't happen to a better group

[ChazInAz]

15. "March For Life?

Hrumph.
Give me a bunch of orange clad Asian monks on a Walk For Peace.

[Wonder Why]

16. Their parents had the brains to vaccinate them. So it's their kids, they'll killed. That's why it's called "pro life".