2019 is shaping up to be the worst year for measles since ’90s, CDC data show
A healthcare worker prepares syringes to vaccinate children against measles, mumps and rubella at a Seattle clinic. An outbreak in Washington state has helped push the number of confirmed measles cases in the U.S. to 206 in January and February alone. Washington Post More than 200 cases of measles were confirmed in the United States in the first two months of the year, with outbreaks occurring in 11 states, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of new measles cases in the first two months of this year already surpasses the entire annual totals of all but three years since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. The unusually large number of cases early in the year doesn’t necessary portend a record high annual total in 2019.
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