After 26 years, the U.S. has lost its measles elimination status
Verified: 4 outlets in 3 countries have reported this story since Nov 14, 1 of them from the United States.
Nearly all measles cases have been in people who had not received the highly effective measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or whose vaccination status is unknown. - Jayla Whitfield-Anderson/Reuters Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 – but not anymore. An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The…
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1 outlet from the United States, where the story is: CNN · how we count
- Nov 14, 3:21 AM UTCFirst reportUS loses its status of country that eliminated measles — newspapertass.com ↗
- Nov 14, 3:24 AM UTC+3 min· you’re reading thisAfter 26 years, the U.S. has lost its measles elimination statuscnn.com ↗
- Severity rose to medium
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 14, 3:24 AM UTC · +3 min
[Claude] Report 2 covers the same event, the U.S. losing its measles elimination status, and its case figure does not conflict with Report 1.
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