United States Measles case broke all the records since 200. In 2000, measles was declared eliminated nationwide. This year, there is a total of 695 cases all across 22 states of the US. Let’s dig through US Measles Outbreak in brief.
Measles is a pandemic disease caused by a transmissible virus. It spread through the air, whenever an infected person sneezes or cough. Symptoms of this disease include fever, runny nose, cough, red spots, rashes and watery eyes.
Previously in 2014, the highest number was 667 cases.
On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 626 individual measles cases in 22 states. It includes state health departments’ illness reports to the CDC through 19th April. Thus, it doesn’t include cases reported since then.
US Measles Outbreak- States Affected:
There are many states reporting measles case in the US. These states are as following:
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Georgia
- New Hampshire
- Arizona
- California
- New York
- Oregon
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Iowa
- New Jersey
- Kentuck
- Maryland
- Washington
- Massachusetts
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Indiana
- Missouri
- Nevada
Notably, the CDC said in a statement that as of 3 p.m. Wednesday it counted 695 cases of the illness this year.
Also, the agency will not update its website with the new numbers until Monday. So, it was just a break from CD practice of updating measles number weekly.
in addition, Federal health officials remained silent even after the soaring case numbers.
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But, on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar released a statement. It said, “The United States is seeing a resurgence of measles, a disease that had once been effectively eliminated from our country.”
Most of the cases emerged in communities with low vaccination rates against the virus.
The CDC says 91.5% of US children aged 19 months to 35 months received at least one dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in 2017. Notably, the year 2018 data isn’t available.
Thus, most of the US has high measles vaccination coverage.
Dr Nancy Messonnier, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases’ director said, “Outbreaks of measles occur when measles gets into these communities of unvaccinated people. The only way to protect against measles is to get vaccinated.”
Also, these outbreaks are linked to infected travellers. Thus, they brought back the disease from Ukraine, Iran and the Philippines.
So, this was everything about the US Measles Outbreak. For more fresh news stay tuned to Daily Patron.
