The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that so far in 2014, there have been 307 cases of the measles, the most recorded since 1996. The cases have doubled in the past month. The last high rate of measles was in 2011 when there were 220 reported. But we're only five months into this year. How high will we climb before the year is out?
Most people who get the measles in the United States are unvaccinated, according to the CDC. Since 2000, when measles was thought to be eliminated in the United States, the range of measles cases has hit a low of 37 in 2004 and a high of 220 in 2011.
In Massachusetts, the last reported case of measles was treated in May at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There have been eight confirmed cases of the measles in the state in 2014, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 2011 (the last peak outbreak year), there were 24. In February, there were two public exposure incidents from a resident of Framingham and a resident of Spencer at two local businesses along Route 9 in Framingham over President's Day Weekend.
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Posted by Unknown on Thursday, May 29, 2014 - Rating: 4.5
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