Falling childhood vaccine coverage and a large, smoldering outbreak that was kindled in an undervaccinated pocket of West Texas have driven the United States to a troubling new milestone: There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.
There have been at least 1,277 confirmed cases of measles reported in the US in 2025, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation. Just halfway through the year, the case tally has already surpassed the last record from 2019, when there were a total of 1,274 cases.
Experts say this year’s cases are likely to be severely undercounted because many are going unreported. Three people have died from measles this year – two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico, all of whom were unvaccinated – matching the total number of US measles deaths from the previous two and a half decades.
The US needs to fall and the world needs to see it. Maybe it’ll learn something. I do however doubt it.
your whole lemmy existence is like reading a Russian propagandist manual on building division between Europe and the US.
that’s weird. why are you being so weird?
Your whole lemmy existence is reading like you are unable to comprehend the most basic of phrases and are running with a full tank but a smaller engine.
Did you grow up without proper parental care and have your crib slammed against the wall one too many times? Why are you acting so backwards? That’s really offputting.