The Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) confirmed that a young woman in New Castle County has been infected with the measles.
This case marks the first in the state since 2012, said the Department of Health.
The woman, who is in her 20s, contracted the virus while abroad. She received treatment at a Delaware hospital and is recovering at home, said the DHSS.
The Health Department does not believe this case is related to the Disneyland outbreak.
The patient had not received the measles vaccination.
Bryn Mawr College is under fire for an email intended to promote personal health that ended up offending dozens of students who felt wrongfully targeted for their body type.
The email — titled “Give a HOOT!' — promoted one of the school's newer programs, Fitness Onward to Weight Loss Success, or Fitness O.W.L.S.
The controversial email was sent to an undisclosed number of students who had an “eligible” body mass index (BMI). The fitness program is a collaboration effort between the Athletic Department, Dining Services and Health Department at the prestigious Main Line all-girls college, according to an email sent to students in mid-January.
The story of one Bryn Mawr junior, Rundrani Sarma, was shared widely on social media after she told the popular site, Buzzfeed that she was "horrified."
The English literature major said she had used resources at the student health department to overcome an eating disorder and the email was “triggering.” When she followed up to the email, she said she was informed it was a clerical mistake.
“In a way of explanation (but not excuse) at one time a nurse entered your height incorrectly and you appeared on the list of students who would qualify for the program,” an email published on Buzzfeed said. “This error pointed out to me that our screening processes are inadequate. They will be improved.”
The school calculated students’ BMIs based on information provided to the Health Center, according to a Bryn Mawr College official.
“[Fitness O.W.L.S] is to sort of get a cohort of people who have similar fitness levels,” said Matt Gray, a college spokesman.
The two-credit Fitness O.W.L.S program listed on the college’s site is the only physical education course listed with eligibility requirements for entry.
“The fitness O.W.L program is really for people that are overweight,” said Monika Hawkins, who works in the Health Center at Bryn Mawr College. “We also tell people they can go to a nutritionist.”
Gray added the requirements are meant to address students with injuries who cannot participate in certain activities. But the site does not list the same health assessment standards for sports like advanced rowing, volleyball, kickboxing or other more rigorous courses.
In an apology email to the student body, officials with the school claim to have designed the program to assist students with indicators of “potential health risks.”
“I sincerely apologize to anyone who has been upset or offended by our communications, and I want to reassure the community that we will rethink our approaches and our assumptions moving forward,” read the apology email sent to students who were “eligible” for the Fitness O.W.L.S
The program has been offered three times in the past, but this is the first time school officials received complaints, Gray said.
The students impacted by the email plan to protest the school for invading their privacy.
The adequacy of body mass index as an indicator of health has long been criticized; NPR.org compiled a list several years ago pointing out potential problems with using BMI to indicate body fat percentage.
The CDC cites BMI as an accurate way to screen weight categories, but the measurement developed by Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet never had interest in measuring obesity. Instead, he attempted to define characteristics of “normal man,” and developed an index that measures the relationship to describe that weight increases as height increases.
An 11-car train -- containing crude oil -- came off the rails in South Philadelphia early Saturday morning, prompting a hazmat situation.
Crews rushed to the tracks, located just south of Pattison Avenue and 11th Street, around 3 a.m. to find the derailed, yet still upright, CSX train, officials said.
No leaks were detected, said Ron Doolittle, a CSX spokesman.
More than three hours later, crews continued to work to get the train back on the tracks.
An investigation is underway to determine the cause of the derailment.
Other train activity was not affected.
Strong winds led authorities to put speed restrictions in place on the Walt Whitman and Ben Franklin bridges between Philadelphia and South Jersey.
Drivers traveling along the two bridges are restricted to 35 miles per hour due to the roadway conditions, authorities said.
The speed restriction was put in place just after 4 a.m. Saturday morning.
A firefighter suffered minor burns while battling a 2-alarm fire at a South Jersey home early Saturday morning.
A Gloucester County home, located along the 300 block of West Cherry Street in Wenonah, went up in flames areound 2 a.m., officials said.
Crews brough the blaze under control around 3:15 a.m. -- about an hour after they first responded, according to authorities.
The injured man was treated and released from a local hospital.
In Pennsylvania, another fire tore through a Philadelphia home late Friday night. Crews responded to a blaze on the 100 block of West Seymour Street in the city's Germantown neighborhood just before midnight, officials said.
The fire was placed under control about 20 minutes after crews arrrived, but it flared up again around 2:30 a.m., according to reports. It was extinguished shortly after 3 a.m.
No injuries were reported in the Philly fire.
The weather over Super Bowl weekend in the Greater Philadelphia region is nothing to celebrate -- even if you are rooting for the Seahawks or Patriots.
Below freezing temperatures and blistering winds combine for a bitter cold Saturday. Temperatures started off in the teens in the morning, on the way to highs in the mid-20s. But it will feel close to zero degrees as wind gusts reach speeds of 15 miles per hour or more.
The frigid weather warms up slightly Sunday as high temps head into the low 30s. Except the real story Sunday is the impending storm, which will bring some type of precipitation to our entire region.
Light snow will begin falling in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday.
The system, heading east across the country, will become more widespread in the Delaware Valley later Sunday afternoon, hitting the I-95 corridor between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. -- just as football fans will be watching the big game.
Depending on where you are, you could see rain, snow or a wintry mix -- meaning wet roads for everyone heading home from a Super Bowl party. Different models show different tracks for the storm, a challenge with forecasting NBC10 First Alert Chief Meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz explains.
Delaware, South Jersey, and parts of Delaware County in Pennsylvania are more likely to receive mainly rain, while Philadelphia and areas just to the east and west of the city will get more of a mix. The farther north you are, the more likely you will receive snow.
The amount of snow will be determined by how much of the storm is rain. Only 30 miles could separate one inch of accumulation from eight inches with this storm.
The wet weather will linger Sunday evening and into Monday morning, meaning the rush hour as you head back to work could be slippery.
Please follow updated forecasts over the weekend, whether it’s on TV, our website, the NBC10 First Alert Weather or NBC10 News apps, Twitter or Facebook.
Philadelphia Police officers arrested a man in Northeast Philly Friday afternoon on suspicion of drunk driving. Hours later, he was dead.
Authorities said they brought the 29-year-old man to a dention center at 750 Race St. in Center City around 3:45 p.m.
He sat in a cell awaiting a breathalyzer test until officers went to check on him around 10:15 p.m. -- more than six hours after he arrived at the center, police said.
The officers, who found the man unresponsive in the cell, said he appeared to have stopped breathing, according to reports.
Medics rushed him to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:31 p.m., investigators said.
The cause of his death is unknown and an investigation is underway.
