The number of measles cases around the world plummeted by a dramatic 88 percent between 2000 and 2024 amid global vaccination efforts — but cases have surged over the last year in dozens of countries and it still killed 95,000 people, the World Health Organization warned in a new report.
There were nearly 800,000 more infections in 2024 than pre-Covid levels in 2019, totaling an estimated 11 million.
