{"id":36069,"date":"2025-07-03T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36069\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:17:08","slug":"measles-outbreak-hits-another-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36069\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak Hits Another State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky has its first measles outbreak<\/a> of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high.<\/p>\n

There have been 1,267 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Texas<\/a> confirmed three more measles cases this week tied to a major outbreak that raged through the late winter and spring.<\/p>\n

There are three other large outbreaks<\/a> in North America. The longest, in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 2,212 cases<\/a> from mid-October through June 24. The province logged its first death June 5 in a baby who got congenital measles but also had other preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n

Another outbreak in Alberta, Canada, has sickened 1,169 as of Wednesday<\/a>. And the Mexican state of Chihuahua<\/a> had 2,810 measles cases and eight deaths as of Wednesday, according to data from the state health ministry.<\/p>\n

Other U.S. states with active outbreaks<\/a> \u2014 which the CDC defines as three or more related cases \u2014 include Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas<\/a>, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., two elementary school-aged children<\/a> in the epicenter in West Texas<\/a> and an adult in New Mexico<\/a> have died of measles this year. All were unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

Central Kentucky has an outbreak of four cases, the state announced Monday. The cases are in Fayette County, which includes Lexington, and neighboring Woodford County. The state has confirmed seven total cases this year.<\/p>\n

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Measles<\/a> is caused by a highly contagious virus that\u2019s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines<\/a> and has been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[210,357,2036,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-36069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-kentucky","10":"tag-measles","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}