U.S. Risks Losing Measles Elimination Status By October, CDC Warns

“If transmission continues in New York City or New York State, elimination status for measles in the United States will end if there is any measles case connected to those outbreaks on or after October 1 or 2, respectively,” Benjamin Haynes, acting team lead of the CDC’s Infectious Disease Media Team, told HuffPost in an email on Wednesday.

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