US EditionMeasles Elimination Status ‘Not Really’ a Concern, CDC Official Says
Measles cases surged to 2,144 in 2025 across 44 states, fueled by vaccination gaps and outbreaks spanning multiple U.S. regions and neighboring countries, PAHO to review status.
- The Pan American Health Organization will decide at an April 13 meeting whether the U.S. has lost its measles elimination status after a yearlong outbreak sickened over 2,400 people since Jan. 20, 2025.
- Policy shifts since 2020 and widespread disinformation have led to about 138,000 kindergarten exemptions , lowering herd immunity, despite the 92.5% national vaccination rate, CDC said.
- CDC scientists are sequencing whole-genome sequences about 16,000 genetic letters long to compare U.S. D8-9171 measles strains and expect genomic and linkage studies due in a couple of months.
- At a recent briefing, CDC principal deputy director Ralph Abraham said he was unbothered by losing elimination status and noted HHS would provide $1.5 million federal response funding to South Carolina outbreak, while Offit said, `Three people died of measles last year in this country`.
- Under PAHO's rules, borders matter and imported cases can change a country's status, with infections from abroad about 10% since Jan. 20, 2025, and a Gaines County undercount of 182 potential cases in March 2025.
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WDEFAs U.S. is poised to lose measles-free status, RFK Jr.'s new CDC deputy downplays its significance
The United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country after a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people. However, Ralph Abraham, the CDC's newly appointed principal deputy director, says he is unbothered by the prospect.
As US is poised to lose measles-free status, RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy plays down its significance
SEMINOLE, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 27: Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. Eighty cases of measles have been reported in Gaines county with one death reported. (Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as …
America's measles elimination status is under review. Here's what that means
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) set an April 13 date to review data on the ongoing measles outbreaks in the U.S. and to determine if the country will lose its measles-elimination status, a largely symbolic badge first bestowed upon the U.S. in 2000. Measles has resurged across the country and around the world in recent years. In November 2025, PAHO revoked Canada's measles-elimination status. So far in 2026, the Centers for Disease …
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New Hampshire Union LeaderA measles resurgence has put the US at risk of losing its 'elimination' status
One year ago this week, a case of measles was recorded in Gaines County, Texas. It was the start of an outbreak that killed two children and sickened at least 760 people. Thousands more in the U.S. have contracted measles…
As U.S. is poised to lose measles-free status, RFK Jr.’s new CDC deputy downplays its significance
A nurse readies a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in May 2025 at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ralph Abraham, said he was unboth…
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