{"id":9845,"date":"2025-07-08T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:03:03","slug":"measles-cases-reach-highest-point-since-the-disease-was-eliminated-in-u-s-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/08\/measles-cases-reach-highest-point-since-the-disease-was-eliminated-in-u-s-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles cases reach highest point since the disease was eliminated in U.S. in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-cases-reach-highest-point-disease-was-eliminated-us-2000-rcna201421\">NBC News<\/a> An outbreak in West Texas that spread to several other states drove the case counts up substantially. Measles cases in the United States are the highest they\u2019ve been since the country eliminated the disease in 2000. The U.S. has reported 1,277 cases since the start of the year, according to NBC News\u2019 tally of state health department data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, the U.S. also recorded its first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/data-research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"measles deaths, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">measles deaths<\/a>\u00a0in a decade: two children in Texas and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-new-mexico-resident-tests-positive-death-rcna195231\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"adult in New Mexico, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adult in New Mexico<\/a>. All were unvaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/measles-cases-reach-highest-point-disease-was-eliminated-us-2000-rcna201421\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Vwg nf krr G Bj SwQC u\"><!-- Vwg nf krr G Bj SwQC u --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News An outbreak in West Texas that spread to several other states drove the case counts up substantially. Measles cases in the United States are the highest they\u2019ve been since the country eliminated the disease in 2000. The U.S. has reported 1,277 cases since the start of the year, according to NBC News\u2019 tally [&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-9845","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\/9845","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=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9846,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/revisions\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}