No more active cases of measles in N.Y. from recent outbreaks

New York state just announced that there are no longer any active cases of measles there associated with two outbreaks that began last October. The last two counties in New York with active cases — Orange and Sullivan — just passed the 42-day mark without a case, or the equivalent of two incubation periods. Rockland County, N.Y., met this milestone last week and New York City, where the outbreak was largely concentrated in Brooklyn, declared its measles outbreak over at the beginning of September. Yesterday’s news also means that the U.S. is likely to maintain its measles elimination status, which was under threat given the length of the New York measles outbreaks. So far this year, more than 1,200 people in the U.S. contracted the disease, the greatest number of cases since 1992