“Measles is really a plane tour”: the experts warn against the epidemic among summer trips | US News
The United States is in the worst epidemic of measles in 33 years, according to figures published this week. Pushed by an epidemic in Texas, the United States has now seen more measles in 2025 than during the year since 1992.
Experts said they expect the growth in measles cases to continue, stimulated in part by the summer trip season. The best way to prevent measles is to be vaccinated against disease.
“Since it is summer and that more and more people are traveling everywhere in the United States and abroad, this will increase the spread of measles,” pediatric infectious diseases at Northwestern University, Dr. Tina Tan.
“People have to ensure that they, their children and their families are all up to date on their measles and other vaccines, because it is the best way to protect and prevent people from getting sick with measles and other vaccine preventable diseases.”
The very effective vaccine of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) maintained the disease at a distance for decades. However, experts warn that the United States could enter into an era “post-immunity after the Sterde” after the Pandemic COVID-19, which disrupted the vaccination visits to routine childhood, supercharged the scope of anti-vaccine groups and saw the rise of a culture of influence of well-being.
“The measles is really in a plane. It is a car.” And as soon as we start to review this fall, we have more vulnerable people, and it gives places to measles to spread. “
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known in medicine. It causes an eruption from top to bottom characteristic, a flowing nose, a strong fever and red and swollen eyes. Although most people get back from the disease, it hospitalizes up to one in five and causes pneumonia in one in 20 children, according to the CDC. It can also cause serious complications, including swelling of the brain, resulting in permanent disability in one in 1,000 child and death in 1-3 in 1,000 children.
Health managers reported 1,297 confirmed cases of measles in 2025, according to a dashboard of the innovation center for the epidemic of Johns Hopkins University. The figures are slightly higher than those reported by the federal health authorities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which brought back 1,288 cases, but updated their count for the last time on Wednesday.
These two figures exceed 1,274 cases reported in 2019. The next highest year was in 1992, when 2,126 cases were reported. Above all, it was before the United States reached the status of elimination of measles in 2000.
Three people died in the 2025 epidemic, including two non-vaccinated but otherwise healthy children in Texas, and an adult not vaccinated in new-mexic, according to the state health authorities.
Northern Dakota is only an example of the difficulty for states to prevent cases of measles. The state had just crossed the 42 -day milestone without any new cases – a federal limit to declare the end to an epidemic – when a non -vaccine person traveled outside the state and contracted the disease, according to the infum, a local media in the Dakota of the North.
The Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the skeptics of the most famous vaccines in the world, has also disrupted the policy of American vaccines and disseminated inflammatory information on the ROR vaccine.
In June, Kennedy dismissed the 17 members of a vaccine consulting committee which is a key link in the distribution pipeline and stacked the committee with seven ideological allies. The group said at its first meeting that he would examine the calendar of infant vaccines and examine older vaccines.
Kennedy’s changes to the federal vaccine policy are now subject to a trial by a pregnant doctor who has been denied a COVVI-19 vaccine. Kennedy unilaterally said that COVVI-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for healthy pregnant women, despite many studies showing that they are more at risk.
