Until Friday, April 25, the United States has confirmed more than 900 cases of measles since the beginning of the year. These cases are in 29 states, but mostly in Texas or around it, where the massive spread is spread jointly in the unprecedented communities.
On April 24, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Had Tallied 884 cases across the country. Today, the Texas Department of Health updates its outbreak tomorrow, Adding 22 cases For her last count from Tuesday. This brings at least 906 certified cases as a whole. Most cases are in unrelenting children and adolescents.
Overall, Texas has identified 664 cases since the end of January. Of these, 64 patients have been admitted to the hospital, and two unmanned school -age children who do not have a basic medical condition have died due to the disease. In New Mexico, an unprecedented adult was also killed by an infection, killing three of this year’s measles death toll.
Cases and deaths are breaking records. In the past 30 yearsWith more measles cases, it was only one year 2019, with more than 1,274 cases. Most of these matters were linked to a large, expanded outbreak in New York City, which took 11 months to score. The United States was just weeks away from the deprivation of its end, it was achieved in 2000 when the country had passed the first 12 months without continuous transmission.
Since 2019, vaccination coverage of measles, mamps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has just fallen among us since 2019. National rates decreased from 95 % in 2019 – it is considered necessary to prevent measles from spreading. 92.7 % In the 2023-24 academic year, the recent year for which data is available.
On the edge
In 2019, among the record annual case, the cases were only reached 704 a total of 26 April. With more than 900 earlier this year, the country is on the way to record a new high. Prior to 2019, the next highest case for measles was 1994. That same year, the country saw 899 cases, which have already moved forward.