The number of measles cases in the US data Posted on Friday.
The cases have been confirmed in 30 states, including Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawai, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisian Pennysylvania, Rhinee, Rhinee, Rhinee, Rhinee, Rhelode, Rhelode, Rhodes. Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
The United States is approaching the total observed in 2019, of which there were 1,274 confirmed infections throughout the country over the course of a year, according to CDC data.
CDC say that 13% of patients with measles in the US. This year have been hospitalized, most of which are under 19 years.
“The key to all this is that the cases of measles we are seeing today and that we generally see are almost 100% in people who have not received the vaccine,” Dr. Roy Gulick, head of infectious disease of Newyork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine told ABC News.
An outside a clinic with the Public Health District of South Plains is observed on February 23, 2025, in Brownfield, Texas.
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Among the cases confirmed nationwide, CDCs say that approximately 96% are among people who are not vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
Meanwhile, 1% of cases are among those who have received only one dose of the measles vaccine, papers, rubella (MMR) and 2% of cases are among those who received the two required doses, according to CDC.
“What you should know about measles is that it is almost completely 100% preventable and that is through reception [a] Measles vaccination, “Gulick said.
CDC currently recommended That people receive two doses of the MMR vaccine, the first to the ages of 12 to 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years. A dose is 93% effective, and two doses are 97% effective against measles, according to CDC.
Measles were declared eliminated of the USA in 2000 due to a highly effective vaccination program, according to CDC. But vaccination rates have been delayed in recent years.
During the 2023 to 2024 school year, 92.7% of Kindergarten He received the MMR vaccine, according to the data. This is lower than 93.1% seen the previous school year and 95.2% seen in the 2019 to 2020 school year, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the decrease in vaccination rates, “that leaves more of the measles susceptible to the population and means that it could happen in the population more easily,” Gulick said. “Sustained transmission that if it occurs in sufficient people and during enough time, we will lose the state of eradication.”
Dr. Karen Tachi UDOH is a resident of Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit.
