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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]
For decades, measles was a rarely seen disease in the U.S., but now it's back on the rise, and the U.S. is at risk of losing its “elimination status,” Centers for Disease Control and ...
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 ...
Why measles cases are climbing Not enough kids are getting vaccinated. For herd immunity, about 95% or more of a population needs to be vaccinated, but most countries around the world have been ...
By February 11, 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) attributed 125 cases of measles across seven US states, 110 of which were in California, to the outbreak. [4] [7] 39 of the California cases had visited the Disney parks between December 17 and 20, and 34 were secondary contacts. [7]
Measles is a respiratory disease caused by the virus of the same name, it normally grows in the cells that line the back of the throat and lungs. In pregnant women in can cause miscarriages or pre-mature births. While measles is almost gone from the United States, it still kills about 164,000 people each year around the world.
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The 1962–1965 rubella epidemic was an outbreak of rubella across Europe and the United States. [1] [2] The Rubella virus, also known as the German measles, is a single-stranded RNA virus from the family Togaviridae and genus Rubivirus. [3]