Marin County Public Health officials are urging residents to stay current on vaccinations, take precautions during a heat advisory and remain alert to ongoing disease risks, including elevated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and a multistate E. coli outbreak.

A federal judge this week temporarily blocked changes to the childhood immunization schedule, keeping existing recommendations in place during legal review. Marin County health officials will continue to follow established, science-based guidance and encouraged residents to check their measles, mumps and rubella vaccination status amid rising global measles outbreaks. In the Bay Area, measles cases have been detected in San Mateo and Napa counties.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.