{"id":26189,"date":"2025-04-17T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2025-04-17T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:26:09","slug":"measles-outbreaks-in-canada-and-mexico-bring-grim-prognosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26189","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreaks in Canada and Mexico Bring Grim Prognosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surges in Mennonite communities near the U.S. border may complicate containment efforts, experts say. <\/p>\n

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As the United States struggles to contain a resurgence of measles that has swept through swaths of the Southwest, neighboring countries are responding to their own outbreaks.<\/p>\n

Canada has reported more than 730 cases<\/a> this year, making this one of the worst measles outbreaks in the country since it declared the virus \u201celiminated\u201d in 1998. Mexico has seen at least 360 measles cases and one death, most of them in the northern state of Chihuahua, according to Mexican health authorities.<\/p>\n

Many of the communities grappling with measles have large Mennonite populations that public health officials have linked to outbreaks. The multinational resurgence has concerned epidemiologists, who fear that simultaneous outbreaks near the U.S. border will make it more difficult to contain the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a line on the map that separates them \u2014 we share air, we share space,\u201d said Lisa Lee, an epidemiologist at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Falling vaccination rates have left the United States more vulnerable to the highly contagious virus, she added. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have a buffer or herd immunity to keep the virus out,\u201d she said, \u201cwe will be at risk as long as any of our neighbors are at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The outbreak in the Southwest shows no signs of slowing. Since late January, the virus has sickened more than 560 people in Texas, 63 people in neighboring New Mexico, and a dozen people in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

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Surges in Mennonite communities near the U.S. border may complicate containment efforts, experts say. As the United States struggles to contain a resurgence of measles that has swept through swaths of the Southwest, neighboring countries are responding to their own outbreaks.Canada has reported more than 730 cases this year, making this one of the worst measles outbreaks in the country since it declared the virus \u201celiminated\u201d in 1998. Mexico has seen at least 360 measles cases and one death, most of them in the northern state of Chihuahua, according to Mexican health authorities.Many of the communities grappling with measles have large Mennonite populations that public health officials have linked to outbreaks. The multinational resurgence has concerned epidemiologists, who fear that simultaneous outbreaks near the U.S. border will make it more difficult to contain the virus.\u201cIt\u2019s just a line on the map that separates them \u2014 we share air, we share space,\u201d said Lisa Lee, an epidemiologist at Virginia Tech.Falling vaccination rates have left the United States more vulnerable to the highly contagious virus, she added. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have a buffer or herd immunity to keep the virus out,\u201d she said, \u201cwe will be at risk as long as any of our neighbors are at risk.\u201dThe outbreak in the Southwest shows no signs of slowing. Since late January, the virus has sickened more than 560 people in Texas, 63 people in neighboring New Mexico, and a dozen people in Oklahoma.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":26191,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26189","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\/26189","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=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26192,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions\/26192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}