There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the United States this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency has also reported three deaths from measles.

Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.

After being declared "eliminated" in the United States in 2000, confirmed cases of measles — a highly infectious disease — have hit a 33-year high at 1,288 so far this year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that cases surpassed 2019,

The United States reported 1,288 measles cases so far this year — the highest number since the virus was declared eliminated in 2020, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. The last time the country documented more cases was in 1992.