Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000. But not anymore.
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.
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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.
