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"...Measles was declared eliminated (absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months) from the United States in 2000. ..." Measles Histor
by SCAQTony 7y ago
"...Measles was declared eliminated (absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months) from the United States in 2000. ..."
Measles History from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html
- apr 7y agoThis is some shady definition. There were outbreaks in 1999, so really what does "eliminated" mean? To me it has never been "eliminated". https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4925a1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4925a1.htm
- nostrademons 7y agoThe CDC page he linked to defines "eliminated", as does his comment: "absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months". You can have outbreaks of a disease that have been eliminated from a population: the disease can be reintroduced from some other population. But what you don't have is person-to-person transmission within the population.