United States: The health agencies of Texas and New Mexico recorded a 20% jump in measles cases in their recent release three days ago, and experts expect these numbers will continue to increase across future weeks.
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Health Services in Texas report 400 measles cases within the state, and Gaines County accounts for 270 of those reports.
Medical officials in Texas have approved two fatal cases of measles ever since the outbreak declaration. New Mexico added yet another measles case to the existing total of 44 reported cases.
Additional measles outbreaks have appeared throughout Kansas and Oklahoma due to Texas cases.
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Number of cases increases by 38% in the last week, outbreaks in 19 states and 2 dead.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows 483 confirmed measles cases through March 27, according to data that they reported one day later than Texas and New Mexico.
Medical experts confirmed additional cases of the outbreak were certain to appear despite the uncertainty about how fast the outbreak would gain momentum.
As of the current reporting year, 2024 has already surpassed the total reported cases of measles in the entire year of 2023 within the United States.
What are the experts stating?
According to Dr. Sapna Singh, chief medical officer for Texas Children’s Pediatrics, the worry is that cases are “still continuing active spread in those areas of outbreak that we’re not even catching.” Reuters reported.
Experts state the US population risk exposure to extremely infectious measles due to decreased vaccination rates.
Medical professionals declared the United States had eliminated the disease as a health threat during the year 2000.
The vaccination rates have declined because measles protection levels now fall below 95% for herd immunity in the Texas county where outbreaks started.
As per Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, “When you’re in a population that has low vaccination rates, and you’re dealing with a virus like measles, the general consensus is that this is going to take some time to quench and it’s going to continue to spread rapidly until that virus runs out of people to infect,” Reuters reported.