MedPage Today April 11, 2024
— Seven outbreaks have occurred already in the first quarter of 2024
A dramatic increase in measles cases reported in the first few months of 2024 threatens the elimination status of the disease in the U.S., a new CDC report found.
Of 338 measles cases reported to the CDC from Jan. 1, 2020 through March 28, 2024, a total of 97 cases (29%) occurred during the first quarter of this year, Adria Mathis, MSPH, of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in Atlanta, and colleagues wrote in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
In comparison, a mean of just five measles cases were reported during the first quarter of each year during 2020-2023, the authors pointed out.
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