{"id":10372,"date":"2025-09-24T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10372"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:15:40","slug":"us-measles-cases-hit-1514-on-fresh-outbreaks-in-utah-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/24\/us-measles-cases-hit-1514-on-fresh-outbreaks-in-utah-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"US Measles Cases Hit 1,514 on Fresh Outbreaks in Utah, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-24\/us-measles-cases-hit-1-514-on-fresh-outbreaks-in-utah-arizona\">Bloomberg<\/a> Measles infections in the US have reached 1,514 this year, as outbreaks continue to spread and routine childhood vaccinations fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"infections, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infections<\/a>&nbsp;in 41 states. Cases are now being driven by travel and fresh outbreaks in Utah and Arizona after Texas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-18\/texas-declares-measles-outbreak-over-with-no-cases-since-july\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"declared, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>&nbsp;its outbreak had ended in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Utah Health Department&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epi.utah.gov\/measles-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"confirmed, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;41 cases as of Sept. 23, mostly related to exposures at a high-school and a local Chick-fil-A chain restaurant. Arizona has recorded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/preparedness\/epidemiology-disease-control\/measles\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"46 cases, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">46 cases<\/a>&nbsp;along the Utah border, the health department said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Measles infections in the US have reached 1,514 this year, as outbreaks continue to spread and routine childhood vaccinations fall. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported&nbsp;infections&nbsp;in 41 states. Cases are now being driven by travel and fresh outbreaks in Utah and Arizona after Texas&nbsp;declared&nbsp;its outbreak had ended in August. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}