Advisory Board April 16, 2024
Recent measles outbreaks pose a “renewed threat” to the disease’s elimination status in the United States, according to a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from CDC.
Measles outbreaks threaten disease’s elimination status
According to CDC, measles cases recorded between January and March of this year amounted to nearly 30% of the total number of measles cases recorded since the start of 2020.
Between 2020 and 2023, the United States recorded an average of five measles cases in the first quarter of each year. So far this year, the United States has recorded 97 measles cases in the first quarter, and as of...