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\n Published on 03\/06\/2025 – 11:00 GMT+2\u2022Updated
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Health officials in the United States have changed their advice to international travellers about measles, saying people should be vaccinated against the virus no matter where they’re going.<\/p>\n
US residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) previously emphasised the importance of vaccination for travellers going to countries with outbreaks.<\/p>\n
Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travellers going to all other countries.<\/p>\n
Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, a researcher at George Washington University’s nursing school in the US, called the update significant.<\/p>\n
A Colorado outbreak last month stemmed from an international flight that landed in Denver, she noted. The CDC travel notice change reflects a recognition that people are not just being exposed to measles in countries where it’s spreading, but also in airplanes and during travel, she added.<\/p>\n
“We’re seeing a shift from localised outbreaks to transmission in transit,” and the CDC seems to be responding to that, Darcy-Mahoney said.<\/p>\n
In line with recommendations in the European Union, the CDC\u2019s travel notice advises two doses for all Americans ages 1 and older, and an early dose for travelling infants ages 6 months to 11 months.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recommends that travellers ensure they are up-to-date on their vaccinations before going abroad.<\/p>\n
So far this year, the US has seen more than 1,000 measles cases, and the EU has reported more than 5,500 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Euronews with\u00a0AP Published on 03\/06\/2025 – 11:00 GMT+2\u2022Updated 11:04 ADVERTISEMENT Health officials in the United States have changed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,20564,1819,35605,1093,16,15,3034,66407],"class_list":{"0":"post-156420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-international-travel","11":"tag-measles","12":"tag-outbreak","13":"tag-public-health","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-vaccination","17":"tag-vaccine-campaign"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622904733756585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}