US Faces New Measles Outbreak as Cases and Deaths Surge Worldwide

Published on March 12, 2024

Measles is seeing a resurgence both worldwide and in the United States 24 years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the virus was “eliminated” in America after decades of vaccination efforts. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) most recent global numbers, released in November, reveal that measles cases increased worldwide by 18 percent to about 9 million, and deaths rose 43 percent to 136,000, in 2022 compared to 2021. Yemen’s outbreak was the most severe, with 18,464 cases recorded between July 2023 and December 2023 alone, according to the CDC, and another 13,721 recorded in Azerbaijan. In 2019, the United States saw its measles numbers in 27 years with 1,274 people affected across 31 states, the CDC said....

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