After 26 years, the US loses its measles-free country status

Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered "eliminated" as a continuously transmitted disease in the United States since 2000, but no longer. An independent expert committee, which reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization, has determined that the United States no longer meets the requirements to be considered a country that has eliminated measles, according to CNN. The decision was widely expected after years of declining vaccination rates and rising measles cases, but it nonetheless represents a stain on the country's public health policy. Reproduction reserved © Copyright ANSA