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The US has recorded its highest number of confirmed measles cases since the year 2000, adding to fears that falling rates of vaccination are allowing infectious diseases to propagate.
The country has recorded 1288 cases so far in 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on 9 July. That figure eclipses the previous high of 1274 cases reported in 2019, despite only six months having passed so far this year—and is the highest number since the US declared the disease officially eliminated in the year 2000.
Public health experts said the grim milestone indicated that the eradication of infectious diseases was now being taken for granted and that persistent circulation could be the new normal.
“Unless we do something to really increase vaccination rates across the country, this is …
