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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 ...
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 ...
The rise of infections was tied to inadequate vaccination rates in children
Nearly 107,500 people died from measles worldwide in 2023 and children under the age of 5 were hit the hardest, the report found. ... there were 16 outbreaks in 2024 compared to just four in 2023 ...
This led to the infection of 131 California residents, as well as people in six other states, Canada, and Mexico. [43] Following this outbreak, California changed its vaccination laws to only allow vaccination exemptions for those with medical conditions. [22] From January to April 2019, 21 cases of measles were reported in California. [43]
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]
Today, 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized, and roughly 1 to 3 out of every 1,000 children with measles die from complications, according to the CDC. U.S. measles cases ...
In early 2008 there was an outbreak of measles in San Diego, California. The outbreak is traced to an unvaccinated 7-year-old child who went on a family trip to Europe. [66] [67] The CDC refers to this as an "import-associated outbreak". [66] The final diagnosis included 11 additional cases of measles in unvaccinated children in San Diego. [66]