US set to lose measles elimination status after cases soar
geox
31 points
5 comments
March 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
JumpCrisscross
What are the tangle consequences of losing status? Medical tests before travel? New visa requirements? (Separately, if America’s states were each countries, who would and wouldn’t be losing status?)
dm319
Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, we're having a bigger issues here in the UK[1], with 2091 cases in 2024, though that dropped to more than half last year. We have already lost our measles elimination status. [1] https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/vaccine-preventable-dise...