The cases of measles in the United States have risen to 308 so far this year, exceeding the total of 285 that were registered at the end of 2024, according to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English).
These data are known at a time when a current grows in the United States until recently a minority of anti -vacuks, which feel supported by the Secretary of Health, Robert F.Kennedy Jr., although the latter, after accessing the position, has lowered his speech in this regard.
Until March 6, the measles outbreak had affected 222 people, mostly minors, and after that date 86 new cases were recorded within a week raising to 308, most due to the outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Although there is outbreak in those three states, caseska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington have also been reported, according to the CDC.
2025 is the third year in which an outbreak has caused more than 200 cases. The others were one in Disneyland in 2014 and another in 2019 in New York – in Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn and Rockland counties, north of the state – which extended for almost a year, CNN said.
Since the measles was declared eradicated in the United States there has been an average of about 179 cases every year and eight outbreaks.
So far, the outbreak became the life of a minor in Texas who was without vaccinating while the CDCs investigate a second death of an adult in New Mexico, also without vaccinating against measles.
