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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 ...
The 2019 measles outbreaks refer to a substantial global increase in the number of measles cases reported, relative to 2018. [1] As of April 2019, the number of measles cases reported worldwide represented a 300% increase from the number of cases seen in the previous year, constituting over 110,000 measles cases reported in the first three months of 2019.
2019 Kuala Koh measles outbreak: 2019 Kuala Koh, Malaysia: Measles: 15 [302] 2019 Samoa measles outbreak: 2019 Samoa: Measles: 83 [303] 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic: 2019–2020 Asia-Pacific, Latin America: Dengue fever: 3,931 [304] COVID-19 pandemic: 2019 [b] –present Worldwide COVID-19: 7.1–36.5 million [306] 2020 Democratic Republic ...
By mid-May 2019, measles cases in the United States had passed 800, with New York having the largest number of cases, with 274 to that point. [14] On September 3, 2019, the New York City Health Department declared the outbreak to be over, due to the passage of a sufficient period of time with no new cases being reported in the city. [15]
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.
Death from measles was reported in approximately 0.2% of the cases in the United States from 1985 through 1992. [8] In populations with high levels of malnutrition and a lack of adequate healthcare, mortality can be as high as 10%. [9] Increased immunization has led to an estimated 78% drop in measles deaths among UN member states. [10] [11]
In 2022, there were an estimated 136,000 measles deaths globally, mostly among unvaccinated or under vaccinated children under the age of 5 years. [110] In February 2024, the World Health Organization said more than half of the world was at risk of a measles outbreak due to Covid-19 pandemic-related disruptions in that month.
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