Cataloging the science-denying road to America losing its global measles-free status NBC News | November 13, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/13/cataloging-the-science-denying-road-to-america-losing-its-global-measles-free-status/ A quarter-century after the United States declared measles eliminated, that hard-won status is slipping away. In the last 18 months, the virus has infected about 5,000 people in 43 outbreaks coast to coast, as NBC News reports in an investigation conducted with Stanford University researchers.