The measles were officially announced “eliminated” in the United States in 2000, but if things continue their way in 2025, this appointment may change soon.
Dr. William Moss, a professor of epidemics at the Johns Hopkins College of Public Health and Director of the Center for Access to International Vaccines, explained in a media briefing this month this month, “The” Status of Lubbet Elimination “is achieved in a country or region when there was no transmission of the virus for 12 months or more.
He said that the state will lose this cancellation as soon as the disease spreads longer than a year. We recently approached the crossing of that threshold, but hardly avoided it.
Moss said: “We have gone a quarter of a century in the case of eliminating measles.” “We lost this in 2019 when this great fascism in New York and New York City extended to nearly 12 months. It was only 12 months ago.”
more than 1200 measles That year has been reported, largely in the region without widespread vaccination, including the Orthodox Jewish societies in New York.
To date this year, Nearly 500 cases have been confirmedAnd the number was rising every week, announcing the centers of control and prevention of diseases to its new balance.
The largest outbreak was located in 2025 in West Texas, where the virus has spread to a large extent in non -fortified Manunite societies. Previous measles outbreaks in Amish societies indicate that this wave of new cases may last for several months or a year.
Moss said it is difficult to determine whether this year’s outbreak, which started in January, will continue for a period longer than 12 months, but this is possible.
“I hope this is not the case and we can deal with this by increasing the coverage of the vaccination, but it still represents a threat and we can lose the state of measles if this continues as it is.”
In 1978, the Disease Control Center announced the goal of eliminating a very infectious virus. The agency has set a final date for the year 1982.
The United States was missed at this deadline, but it finally achieved the removal by 2000 “thanks to the very effective vaccination program in the United States, as well as measles control in the American region,” says the Center for Disease Control.
Doubts of vaccines have increased since the Covid-19s, but there are early signs that more people are vaccinated against measles since it began to spread in Texas and New Mexico, according to the Associated Press reports.