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Mohave County Department of Public Health

Mohave County Department of Public Health

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America’s measles comeback: how vaccine gaps turned 2025 into the worst year in decades

Force in Play

Front-line responder to Arizona’s largest measles cluster in decades

Measles, the virus the U.S. declared vanquished in 2000, is back with a vengeance. In 2025 it has infected nearly 2,000 Americans, with runaway outbreaks now in South Carolina’s Upstate and the Arizona–Utah border towns, forcing hundreds of mostly unvaccinated students and families into quarantine.

Updated Dec 11, 2025