Is US measles elimination status in danger as cases surge to record high in 2025?
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The United States has been witnessing a record rise in measles cases in 2025, with at least 1,200 confirmed cases. This comes as experts have claimed that many of the cases have gone unreported. The troubling situation for the country has been attributed to falling childhood vaccine coverage and a huge, simmering outbreak that was sparked in an undervaccinated pocket of West Texas, according to a CNN report.The situation is quite alarming for the US, as there are reportedly more measles cases in the country in 2025 than at any other time since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago. This has put the country's measles elimination status in jeopardy.According to data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, there have been at least 1,277 confirmed cases of measles reported in the US in 2025, CNN reported. Out of the total cases reported this year so far, the majority have been in Texas, with more than 750 confirmed cases associated with one outbreak that started in late January 2025.It's just been halfway through the year, and the case tally has already crossed the last record from 2019, when there were a total of 1,274 cases reported. According to CNN, three people have lost their lives from measles this year, including two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico. Notably, all of them were unvaccinated. This matches the total number of US measles deaths from the previous two and a half decades.Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. This achievement meant that there had not been continuous transmission for more than a year at a time. Things have been different in 2025, and if cases continue to accumulate through January 2026, the country could lose its measles elimination status.According to CDC data, before 2025, there have been an average of about 180 measles cases reported each year since the disease was declared eliminated, with 2019 being an exception.In 2019, large outbreaks in New York put the elimination status under threat. The outbreaks that were reported that year were focused on Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn and Rockland County that had been targeted with anti-vaccine disinformation for years.
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