This month, the number of measles cases reported in California so far in 2025 jumped above the total for all of 2024.
There have been 16 measles cases reported in the Golden State so far this year, compared to 15 total last year and just four the year before. The highly contagious, sometimes-fatal disease was considered eradicated in the United States in 2000, but cases are returning amid declining vaccination rates and a large ongoing outbreak in Texas.
“The writing was on the wall that we were going to see more measles cases this year than we saw last year,” said Tara Greenhow, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco…