{"id":9202,"date":"2025-04-15T17:59:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T22:59:47","slug":"us-measles-cases-are-undercounted-experts-say-but-real-numbers-are-proving-hard-to-pin-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/15\/us-measles-cases-are-undercounted-experts-say-but-real-numbers-are-proving-hard-to-pin-down\/","title":{"rendered":"US measles cases are undercounted, experts say, but real numbers are proving hard to pin down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/15\/health\/measles-undercount-public-health\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy has claimed repeatedly that measles cases have \u201cplateaued,\u201d despite contradictory data from his own agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, the health department in Texas \u2013 the center of the outbreak that now spans multiple states \u2013 reported 234 new cases over the past three weeks, 39% more than in the three weeks before that. New outbreaks have also been reported in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/health\/idepd\/diseases-and-conditions-resource-page\/measles\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Indiana, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiana<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.ohio.gov\/wps\/portal\/gov\/data\/view\/summary-of-infectious-diseases-in-ohio\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Ohio, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/healthy.arkansas.gov\/article\/second-case-of-measles-in-arkansas-identified-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/15\/health\/measles-undercount-public-health\/index.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Kennedy has claimed repeatedly that measles cases have \u201cplateaued,\u201d despite contradictory data from his own agencies. On Tuesday, the [&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":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","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\/9202","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=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9203,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}