There have been 1,277 confirmed cases of measles this year, which has eclipsed 2019 to become the highest annual total since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. And there is still half ...

Why it matters if the U.S. loses its measles elimination status Here’s what could happen if the deadly disease returns as an enduring health threat. July 10, 2025 ...

Dropping vaccination rates and changes in U.S. vaccine policy have public health experts concerned that annual measles outbreaks could become more frequent.

Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these ...

The heightened spread of the disease is a “canary in the coal mine” moment, representing the rapid return of several ...

RFK Jr.'s “tepid endorsement” of measles vaccination puts the U.S. at risk of losing its elimination status of the disease as early as January, the FDA's former top vaccine regulator said.

The infection was declared eliminated from the US in 2000 but has seen a resurgence amid vaccine hesitancy ...

The epicenter of the crisis is Texas, particularly Gaines County, where 414 of the state’s 753 cases have been reported ...

Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles ...

Measles was officially eliminated from the United States in 2000. Elimination status is defined as the absence of regular, endemic transmission of the virus within a country or specific region. Unlike ...

Ousted FDA vaccine chief says US measles elimination status under threat The Texas outbreak reached 505 confirmed cases on Tuesday. Most infections are in children.

But the elimination status is very much in jeopardy now. “We are at risk for measles becoming endemic again in the United States,” said Dr. S. Wesley Long , medical director of microbiology at ...