This week, a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) arrived in Chicago to assist in the response to the measles outbreak. According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, eight cases have been reported in the city in the past week. It’s the first time measles have been detected locally in Chicago since 2019. The outbreak in Chicago comes after an outbreak occurred last month, which has since been contained, in south Florida.
At the same time, in California, at least 300 people have been exposed after a child went to the University of California Davis Medical Center hospital for treatment recently. Michigan also recently confirmed its first case of measles. As the Atlantic reported, measles are making a comeback in the United States, confirming warnings from earlier this year in which health officials predicted we'd see more measles outbreaksin 2024.
