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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.”

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.

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