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Credit - Getty Images. L ast year, cases of measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease that's highly contagious—jumped by 79% around the world. Most of them were in children. That trend is ...
As of Feb. 15, a total of 20 measles cases were reported in Arizona, California, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to ...
Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. About ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. ... COVID-19 pandemic in California; D. Disneyland measles outbreak
Young boy with measles in 1968. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 by the World Health Organization due to the success of vaccination efforts. [1] However, it continues to be reintroduced by international travelers, [1] and in recent years, anti-vaccination sentiment has allowed for the reemergence of measles ...
Measles cases have skyrocketed in recent years after a COVID-19 pandemic-era drop in vaccination against the virus. Cases of the disease increased by 20 percent across the globe between 2022 and ...
Prior to the Disneyland measles outbreak of 2014–15, California saw increasing rates of non-medical vaccine exemptions, sometimes in clusters which left those communities susceptible to measles. [4] Vaccine coverage at a quarter of California schools, including several around the Disneyland theme park, was too low for herd immunity. [4]
Measles cases and outbreaks have been reported across the U.S. in recent weeks. The CDC as of Thursday had reported 45 cases across 17 states this year, compared to 58 cases for all of 2023.