NEW YORK: The United States recorded 695 cases of measles in 2019, the most of any year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, health authorities said Wednesday.“The high number of cases in 2019 is primarily the result of a few large outbreaks – one in Washington State and two large outbreaks in New York that started in late 2018,“ the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.The resurgence of the once-eradicated, highly-contagious disease is linked to a growing anti-vaccine movement in richer nations – which the World Health Organisation has identified as a major global …read more
Source: theSun
