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## Video: Measles Cases Are at a 33-Year High. Experts Warn Other Diseases Could Follow

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_Published 2025-07-10. The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, with a total of 1,288 cases nationally and another six months to go in 2025._


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## Transcript

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory virus that has plagued humans for an eternity. But with the advent in 1964 of very effective vaccines, we saw a decline across the world and in particular in the United States, to the point that by the year 2000 we declared measles eliminated, which means cases will not keep propagating through the population. It continues to be eliminated. But that doesn't mean that we don't have big outbreaks and cases that keep going. For example, in 2019, we had a large outbreak in New York that, uh, was over 1200 cases. And we came very close with that outbreak to losing elimination.

The rule is that you have to have a continuous chain of transmission that extends past a year or 52 weeks. And so right now we're about halfway there. Uh, from January, uh, 20th or thereabouts until present day. The question is, do we contain this or is it kind of already out of the the bottle here? My fear right now is over the last five years, we've seen the public health system in this country really degraded. Um, you know, throughout Covid, uh, and more recently, uh, through some decisions being made federally, uh, to reduce funding and capacity. It really is made more difficult when you don't have an intact public health system, when you don't have a population that believes in evidence based science and is wracked with concerns about conspiracy.

And you have people who basically profiteer off misinformation, all of us are kind of they're pulling for our patients. We're for our communities, for our populations. And when we have tools that can really be helpful and see that they're discarded for no good reason, it it's met with a little bit of melancholy on our part.

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