US Measles Cases Reach 20-Year High
The numbers of measles cases in the United States so far this year marks a 20-year high, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced.
Just in the first months of 2014, from January 1 through May 23, a total of 288 confirmed measles cases have been reported to the CDC, surpassing the highest number of reported cases happening in a full year since the disease was eliminated in the country almost 15 years ago.
The largest number of cases in previous years had occurred during 2011, with 220 cases. The number of cases so far in 2014 is the largest reported in the first five months of a year since 1994, CDC officials said.
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