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Last year, there were 10.3 million cases of measles globally -- an increase of 20% from the previous year, according to a newly released report from the World Health Organization. Nearly 107,500 ...
(The measles vaccine is given in two doses: one at a year, the next at age 4-6.) Vaccination rates in the U.S. are declining, too, and vaccination exemption rates are creeping up.
More than 100 cases of measles have been reported in the United States since the start of the year, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that a rapid rise in cases ...
The CDC said the most recently reported number of measles cases in the United States (64) has already surpassed 2023's grand total (58).
In 2018, 371 cases of measles were confirmed in the United States. From January to August 2019, 1215 cases across 30 states had been confirmed as measles by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [4] This is the largest number of cases in one calendar year since the disease was declared eliminated. [5]
There were a total of 58 reported cases of measles throughout all of last year. So far this year, the CDC said 17 different states reported measles cases, compared to 20 jurisdictions for all of 2023.
US Measles cases, 2010 to 2018. [59] Between January 1 and April 25, 2008, a total of 64 confirmed measles cases were preliminarily reported in the United States to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [60] [61] the most reported by this date since 2001, and the highest total number in six years. [62]
In early months of 2019, a measles outbreak occurred in the Portland metropolitan area, including the Clark County, Washington suburbs, in the United States. At the time, the outbreak was the largest outbreak in more than two decades; [1] outbreaks in 2019 in areas including Brooklyn [2] and Rockland County, New York [3] have since seen far greater numbers of cases.