The CDC’s confirmed measles cases count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in all of 2024.

North Dakota is the 11th state in the U.S. with a measles outbreak, logging its first cases since 2011.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s confirmed measles case count is 935, more than triple the amount seen in all of 2024. The three-month outbreak in Texas accounts for the vast majority of cases, with 702 confirmed as of Tuesday. The outbreak has also spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
      81·
      1 day ago

      I always roll my eyes when I read hyperbolic comments like this; both the incident rate and the absolute case count is higher in Manitoba Canada than the entirety of the United States and if that isn’t enough the European Region has a skyrocketing case count with over 120,000 cases reported to the W.H.O. in 2024 which is more than 10 times the cases in the United States.

      So the numbers say that the Europeans should ban themselves first, then the Canadians, and then the Americans.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        21·
        23 hours ago

        You might have missed the point that this statistic includes central Asia for some strange reason. Western Europe has way less cases, and nearly all of them in Romania.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
          3·
          20 hours ago

          Western Europe has way less cases…

          Fair enough, so lets move those goalposts to the west a bit.

          Here’s the EU data from April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which seems to be the latest available. You’ll note that in that time period there were 26,222 cases. Romania, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium reported the most.

          …and nearly all of them in Romania.

          True but Romania is part of the EU and so they count against the numbers. Just like Texas does for the US.

          Looking at the data we can plainly see that in 2025 the EU has reported more cases of measles every month than the US has in all months combined. The EU had 4482 cases by the end of March while the US is still under a thousand partway into May.

          For funsies though let’s remove Romania from the data completely and see what it looks like.

          Of 26,222 cases Romania accounted for 21,620 which leaves a remainder of 4,602. On the United States side there has been 935 cases YTD and there were 285 in 2024 for a total of 1,219 in the past 16+ months.

          I’ve linked and quoted Official Sources from both the EU and the US and the data clear; the EU is having a worse measles outbreak than the US.

          Lest you feel I’m picking on the EU I’m also going after Canada because they too have had more cases of measles since just last October than the US has had in the past 16+ months. You can find that data linked in my post here.

          • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            11·
            15 hours ago

            While all of this sounds true, none of the EU states has a health minister of the caliber of RFK… At least that I heard about.

            Nor who has enacted policies as stupid as he has.

            So this data might not remain true very long…

            I wrote my original acidic comment in the hope to shake some sense in the US and make them realize how nonsensical these policies are, I’m European and well aware we have our own crackpots, I have some familial relationships with a few of them…