{"id":2595,"date":"2024-03-20T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:32:49","slug":"following-measles-outbreaks-officials-grow-wary-of-renewed-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"Following Measles Outbreaks, Officials Grow Wary of Renewed Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cases this year have already topped the total in 2023. Unvaccinated travelers account for most infections.<\/p>\n

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Measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, is resurging in pockets of the United States, a warning of the dangers of the strengthening anti-vaccine movement.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more cases this year than the 58 tallied in all of 2023, although the agency is not expected to release exact numbers until Friday. On Monday, the agency advised health care providers to ensure that unvaccinated patients, especially those traveling internationally, stay updated on their immunizations.<\/p>\n

The number of cases is likely to keep rising because of a sharp spike in measles worldwide, along with spring travel to some regions with outbreaks, including Britain, said Dr. Manisha Patel, chief medical officer at the C.D.C.\u2019s respiratory disease division.<\/p>\n

Nearly all the cases in the United States so far are related to unvaccinated travelers. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to see widespread measles cases going throughout the country,\u201d Dr. Patel said. \u201cBut we do expect additional cases and outbreaks to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Measles is among the most contagious of diseases; each infected person can spread the virus to as many as 18 others. The virus is airborne and can stay aloft up to two hours after an infected person has left the room, spreading rapidly through homes, schools and child care facilities.<\/p>\n

In Chicago, one case of measles at a migrant shelter has grown to 13<\/a>, prompting the C.D.C. to send a team to help contain the outbreak. (Two additional cases in the city appear to be unrelated.)<\/p>\n

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Cases this year have already topped the total in 2023. Unvaccinated travelers account for most infections.Measles, a highly contagious but preventable disease, is resurging in pockets of the United States, a warning of the dangers of the strengthening anti-vaccine movement.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded more cases this year than the 58 tallied in all of 2023, although the agency is not expected to release exact numbers until Friday. On Monday, the agency advised health care providers to ensure that unvaccinated patients, especially those traveling internationally, stay updated on their immunizations.The number of cases is likely to keep rising because of a sharp spike in measles worldwide, along with spring travel to some regions with outbreaks, including Britain, said Dr. Manisha Patel, chief medical officer at the C.D.C.\u2019s respiratory disease division.Nearly all the cases in the United States so far are related to unvaccinated travelers. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to see widespread measles cases going throughout the country,\u201d Dr. Patel said. \u201cBut we do expect additional cases and outbreaks to happen.\u201dMeasles is among the most contagious of diseases; each infected person can spread the virus to as many as 18 others. The virus is airborne and can stay aloft up to two hours after an infected person has left the room, spreading rapidly through homes, schools and child care facilities.In Chicago, one case of measles at a migrant shelter has grown to 13, prompting the C.D.C. to send a team to help contain the outbreak. (Two additional cases in the city appear to be unrelated.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2597,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}