New Dangerous Disease Threatening Children in America: CDC Warns of Measles Outbreak

Youm7 TV presented a special broadcast, prepared by Amani Al-Akhras and presented by Sarah Ismail, about the emergence of a new dangerous disease Children of AmericaThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned again about a disease that threatens the lives of many children in the United States, and asked the authorities to take preventive measures to prevent has spread, after Washington recorded an increase of about 30. percent in the total cases of measles seen since the beginning of the year 2020.

According to the American Daily Express newspaper, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned about the disease and described it as a “renewed threat,” after cases continued to rise to about eighty-seven cases since the beginning of this year. .

America successfully eliminated measles in 2000, according to the newspaper, citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the country nearly lost its eradication status in 2019, when more than 1,200 cases have been recorded, most of them in New York communities, which eliminates measles The disease is at risk again, as 113 cases and seven outbreaks have been recorded as April 4th.

The American newspaper reported that the majority of disease cases came from people who had not been vaccinated or received unknown vaccines, prompting the Center for Disease Control to call for wider vaccination coverage in the States. United.

The newspaper reported that control centers said the largest outbreak of the virus in the United States this year was in a migrant shelter in Chicago, where cases rose to more than 60 this week, prompting the Chicago Department of Public Health to release more than 13,000 measles cases. vaccines.