04/24/2025

Millions of U.S. Measles Cases Forecast over 25 Years if Shots Decline

Measles were once virtually wiped out in the United States

The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

No change in the current vaccination rate would result in hundreds of thousands of measles cases over the same period, according to a mathematical model produced by a team of Stanford University researchers.

"Our country is on a tipping point for measles to once again become a common household disease," said Nathan Lo, a Stanford physician and author of the study published in the medical journal JAMA.

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