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Measles cases in the US from 1938 to 2019. Before the vaccine was available in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that about three to four million were infected each year, of which approx. 500,000 were reported, with 400 to 500 people dying and 48,000 being hospitalized as a result.
By July 9, 2008, a total of 127 cases were reported in 15 states, making it the largest US outbreak since 1997 (when 138 cases were reported). [65] Most of the cases were acquired outside of the United States and affected individuals who had not been vaccinated. In early 2008 there was an outbreak of measles in San Diego, California.
Before immunization in the United States, between three and four million cases occurred each year. [5] The United States was declared free of circulating measles in 2000, with 911 cases from 2001 to 2011. In 2014 the CDC said endemic measles, rubella, and congenital rubella syndrome had not returned to the United States. [126]
The 2019 measles epidemic was the worst in almost three decades, and threatened the United States' status as a country that has eliminated measles by stopping the continual spread of the measles ...
Over the past five years, the CDC reported the following number of measles cases: 2023: 58 cases in 20 states, including Florida. 2022: 121 cases in six states.
There have already been more reported measles cases in 2024 than there were in all of 2023, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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 ...
The biggest measles outbreak in recent years was in 2019, when 1,274 cases in the U.S. were reported to the CDC. The next year, during height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were in lockdown ...