Measles cases in the United States have hit a 30-year high, with 1,288 new cases reported in just the first six months of the year. Welcome to Donald Trump‘s America.
The disease was previously declared eliminated by the CDC in 2000, which meant it was no longer spreading within the United States, and any new case reported came from someone who had traveled abroad and discovered they were carrying the disease upon returning. Before then, measles cases in 1992 peaked at over 2,000, but vaccines soon became widely prevalent in the US, pushing those numbers down.
