The US has now registered more than 300 measles shops, only three months to 2025, which exceed the annual Case counts for all years after 2019. The majority of this year's cases come from an outbreak that has been expanded in an under vaccinated province in West -Texas at the end of January, which has since spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma.
From the afternoon of March 14, Texas reports 259 cases in 11 provinces, 34 hospital admissions and one death, which took place in a non-vaccinated 6-year-old girl. New Mexico reports 35 cases in two provinces, two hospital admissions and one death. That death took place with a non -vaccinated adult who did not look for medical treatment and posthumously tested positive for the virus. The cause of death is still being investigated. Oklahoma reports two likely cases that are linked to the outbreak.
In addition to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, 12 other states have reported at least one measles shop since the beginning of the year: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this year has seen three outbreaks of measles, defined as three or more related cases.
From March 13, the CDC 301 reported cases, which do not contain 36 new cases that were reported today in Texas and two in New Mexico.
“Measles is back”
Since 2000, when health officials conquered with measles from the US were eliminated thanks to coordinated vaccination campaigns, only three other years have had higher quantities of measles business. In 2014, the country saw 667 measles. There were 381 cases in 2018. And in 2019 – when the country was about to lose its elimination status – there was a surprising 1,274 cases, largely driven by massive outbreaks in New York. Measles are considered eliminated if there is no continuous spread in the country in the course of at least 12 months. (This should not be confused with “extermination”, which is defined as “permanent reduction to zero of the global incidence” of an infectious disease. Smallpox and Rinderpest are the only pathogens that people have eradicated.)
