[Cusom27] PCC lecture Global Health; When the world comes to us.

[Cacioppo, Joseph]

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JOSH STEIN • Governor

DEVDUTTA SANGVAI • Secretary

KAREN BURKES • Acting Deputy Secretary for Health

KELLY KIMPLE • Acting Director, Division of Public Heal







To:   North Carolina Clinicians

From:  Zack Moore, MD, MPH, State Epidemiologist

Carrie Blanchard, PharmD, MPH, Director, Immunization Branch Subject: Increase in Measles Cases in the United States (3 pages)

Date:  March 3, 2025



Background

This memo is intended as a reminder for North Carolina clinicians about measles reporting, testing, and vaccination, given recent increased measles activity in the United States and globally.



According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 164 cases of measles have been reported from nine jurisdictions in 2025 as of February 28, 2025, including recent outbreaks in Texas<https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-21-2025> and New Mexico<https://www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/ideb/mog/>. There has been one death associated with the Texas outbreak. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) an estimated 107,500 people died from measles in 2023, mostly under or unvaccinated children under the age of five years. A total of 285 measles cases were reported in the U.S. in 2024 from 33 jurisdictions including one case in North Carolina.<https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/2024/09/09/first-measles-case-north-carolina-2018-ncdhhs-urging-vaccinations>

Please see above  “When the world comes to us”

Dr. Joe
Joseph D. Cacioppo DO
Chair Community and Global Health
Associate Professor Emergency Medicine
Campbell University, J.M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine--
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