Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Measles is among the most contagious of vaccine-preventable diseases, and despite elimination being declared in the US in 2000, recent years have seen numerous outbreaks.1 Declining vaccine confidence, geographic clustering of underimmunized children, and widening inequities in access to preventive care have left communities increasingly vulnerable. 1 The 2025 Texas outbreak, the largest in the US in more than 2 decades, offers an important reminder of the fragility of community immunity while also revealing how families, clinicians, and health systems adapt quickly in moments of heightened threat.Goodwin Cartwright and colleagues 2 present compelling evidence that measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination practices shifted rapidly during the outbreak, particularly through early vaccination of infants aged 6 to 11 months.Using electronic health record data from more than 82 000 children receiving regular outpatient care, the authors found that early vaccination of infants 6 to 11 months old represented only 0.7% of first doses from 2020 through January 2025 but rose
Source: JAMA Network Open
Authors: Lece V. Webb, Sean T. O’Leary
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W4416211759