Sept. 4, 2026, 3:04 PM PDT
By Erika Edwards
NBC News
In November, a group within the #WorldHealthOrganization, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), will meet to decide whether the U.S. has lost its measles elimination status.
#PAHO is looking specifically at whether a single chain of measles #transmission has gone on for more than 12 months, as well as whether there are a significant number of cases for which the source of infection is unknown, said Noel Brewer, the chair of an independent committee that assists the #CDC in analyzing the country’s measles situation ahead of the PAHO meeting.
“The country’s had measles cases every week for the last 20 months, and at least one #regional #outbreak has already passed the 12-month mark,” said Brewer, also a professor of public health at the University of #NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. “There’s no end in sight.”