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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 ...
In early 2010, there was a serious outbreak of measles in the Philippines with 742 cases, leaving four unvaccinated children dead in the capital city of Manila. [103] In late 2013, it was reported in the Philippines that 6,497 measles cases occurred which resulted in 23 deaths. [104] In 2014 the Philippines experienced a large measles outbreak.
Measles outbreaks in the U.S. and abroad are raising health experts' concern about the preventable, once-common childhood virus. One of the world's most contagious diseases, measles can lead to ...
Measles cases in the U.S. continue to increase, so much so that this year's amount has already surpassed 2023's total, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).. As of ...
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]
(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.
2012 outbreak of Salmonella; 2012–2013 flu season; 2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak; 2015 Bronx Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; 2015 United States E. coli outbreak; 2015 United States H5N2 outbreak; 2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak; 2017–2018 United States flu season; 2018 United States adenovirus outbreak; 2019 New York measles ...
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.