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Bookmark or Share- Measles cases surge worldwide, infecting 10.3 million people in 2023As measles cases surge and outbreaks increase, the world's elimination goal, as laid out in Immunization Agenda 2030, is under threat. Worldwide, 82 countries had achieved or maintained measles elimination at the end of 2023. Just this week, Brazil was reverified as having eliminated measles, making the WHO Americas Region once again free of ...
- Measles Cases and Outbreaks | Measles (Rubeola) | CDCMeasles is an airborne, extremely infectious, and potentially severe rash illness. Before the measles vaccine was introduced, an estimated 48,000 people were hospitalized and 400–500 people died in the United States each year. Measles is not a seasonal virus.
- Assessing Measles Outbreak Risk in the United StatesBelow, we describe measles epidemiology, including factors that determine who is likely to get measles, and how big outbreaks could get. We also describe how we are using modeling to explore potential scenarios and to better understand future measles outbreak risk in the United States.
- CDC warns measles spike poses a 'renewed threat' to elimination ... - NPRA spike in measles cases, largely caused by people not getting vaccinated, poses a "renewed threat" to the declaration in 2000 that the highly contagious airborne disease had been eliminated in...
- Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Here’s why misinformation ... - PBSDisrupted by the COVID pandemic and misinformation, measles vaccination among schoolchildren has declined dangerously, data show, resulting in a growing number of outbreaks.
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