From Friday, April 25, the US has confirmed more than 900 measles shops since the beginning of the year. The cases are over 29 states, but most are in or near Texas, where there is a huge outbreak of mushrooms in close, under vaccinated communities.
On April 24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had kept 884 cases throughout the country. Today, the Texas Health Department has updated its outbreak total and added 22 cases to the last count of Tuesday. This brings the national total to at least 906 cases. Most cases are in non -vaccinated children and teenagers.
In general, Texas has identified 664 cases since the end of January. Of them, 64 patients were admitted to hospital and two unvaccinated school-going children without underlying medical conditions have died of the disease. A non -vaccinated adult in New Mexico also died of the infection, so that this year's measles brought the death clump to three.
The things and killing break records. In the past 30 years, the only year with more measles cases than the current count 2019, which saw 1,274 cases. Most of those cases were linked to large, extensive outbreaks in New York City that lasted 11 months to suppress. The US was only a few weeks away from losing its elimination status, earned a performance in 2000 when the country went for the first time 12 months without continuous transmission.
Since 2019, the vaccination coverage of measles, mumps and rubella (mmr) vaccine among our kindergartens has only fallen. The national rates fell from 95 percent in 2019 – the threshold that is needed to prevent measles from spreading – up to 92.7 percent in the 2023–24 school year, the most recent year for which data is.
On the edge
In 2019, in the midst of the annual Case count, things had only achieved a total of 704 by 26 April. With more than 900's count this year, the country is on its way to register a new high. Before 2019, the next highest case was for measles in 1994. That year the country saw 899, which has already surpassed 2025.
