From The Lancet (bold added; footnotes omitted):
The USA currently faces its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 2280 confirmed cases in 2025 and 910 additional cases reported in just the first 6 weeks of 2026. This re-emergence threatens one of the country's major public health achievements: the elimination of measles in 2000, a feat reached after several years of extensive nationwide vaccination efforts, including a change to a two-dose measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination schedule. The current epidemic started in January, 2025, in Texas, USA, with two imported cases, and has since spread to 45 US states. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), measles elimination status requires the sustained absence of endemic transmission—defined as any continuous transmission chain—persisting for at least 1 year. Canada lost its elimination status on Nov 10, 2025, prompting the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to declare that the Region of the Americas—which had been the first region worldwide to eliminate measles twice—had lost its measles-free status. This development reflects a broader global resurgence of measles: on Jan 26, 2026, six European countries, including the UK and Spain, also lost their elimination status. Concerns are growing that the USA might soon face a similar outcome, with a decision from the PAHO Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission forthcoming in November, 2026. ...
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