US may lose measles elimination status after outbreaks spread to 45 states

medicalxpress - After public health experts declared measles eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established seven indicators of measles elimination status to ensure that the country remained on track. Now, analyzing …

AI Summary: Widespread measles outbreaks now touch dozens of states, raising alarms that the US could lose its measles elimination status. Public health teams warn of falling immunity, rising transmission, and the urgent need for vaccination campaigns, while unconventional signals—like prediction markets—are drawing attention as noisy but sometimes useful outbreak indicators.

• Detection and science: markets, sequencing, and treatments (3)
• Threat to U.S. measles elimination and spread drivers (4)
• Vaccine hesitancy, framing, safety, and delivery capacity (4)
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Detection and science: markets, sequencing, and treatments

Threat to U.S. measles elimination and spread drivers

Vaccine hesitancy, framing, safety, and delivery capacity

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