Measles cases have reached 1,046 as the virus continues to spread throughout the United States, according to data Updated on Friday of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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.
Infectious disease experts have said that the United States is on its way to exceeding the total of 2019 of 1,274 cases, which were confirmed over the course of a year. This year’s total also marks the second highest case count in 25 years, according to CDC data.
CDC say that 12% of measles patients in the US. This year have been hospitalized, most of which are under 19 years old.
According to CDC data, approximately 96% of measles cases are among those who are not vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
The signals indicate the way to measles tests in the parking lot of the Seminole hospital district in front of the Wigwam stadium, on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas.
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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 recommended doses, according to CDC.
This year at least three deaths have been confirmed, two among the children and one among an adult, all of whom were not vaccinated.
It occurs when a traveler not vaccinated with measles may have exposed people at Denver International Airport and a nearby hotel, Health officials said Thursday.
The patient was at the international terminal on Tuesday, May 13, and then took a transport service to stay in the nearby Quality Inn and Suites that night. The next day, the patient took a transport service to the airport and boarded a domestic flight.
The Department of Health and Public Environment of Colorado and the Department of Public Health and Environment of Denver said that anyone who has been exposed in any of the officials will be directly notified by health officials.
Similarly, a King County resident in the state of Washington traveled through the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and a medical center, while infectious-Seattle public health & King County He said Tuesday. The individual was probably exposed to measles while recently traveling internationally.
In addition, the New Jersey Health Department He sent an alert that a non -resident with measles attended the Shakira concert at the Metlife stadium last week, which could expose people.
Although the concert occurred on May 16, officials warned that people can develop symptoms until June 6. Until now, associated cases have not been identified.
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.
Boxes and vials of measles, paper, vaccine against rubella virus in a vaccine clinic placed by the Lubbock Department of Public Health, on March 1, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.
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“I think that the general and general concern we have is that, as vaccination rates decrease, we are beginning to see very contagious diseases such as measles and, in general, it needs a wall of immunity of 95% of the population to stop an outbreak,” said Dr. Scott Roberts, an assistant professor of the Yale Medicine School and Medical Director of Infection Prevention of Infections in New Have ABC News.
“Now there are many areas of the United States in which we do not reach that 95% and it is much lower than that, and I think we are seeing the consequences,” he continued.
Roberts says he is concerned about the wrong information that has emerged around the MMR vaccine, as a link between the vaccine and autism, which has been discredited by several high quality studies.
“I worry that we are seeing this wrong information and parents are reading these things on the Internet, which is not based on the truth,” he said. “What we try to do as medical care providers and public health professionals is really just to give the right information that the measles vaccine is safe. It is effective and measles itself is not a current cold; it can cause these really devastating consequences if someone is vulnerable and infected.”
Dr. Karen Tachi UDOH is a resident of Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit.
