According to Information published by ADPHThe investigation takes place in Lee County, involving a person “who was not yet eligible for the vaccine”. The CDC recommends that children get their first dose of vaccine at the age of 12 to 15 months.
“The ADPH collaborates with local medical suppliers to identify any other non -vaccine person who may need to receive the ROR vaccine,” said the statement published on Sunday. “Currently, since most eligible Alabamians are vaccinated against measles, the risk of epidemic remains low, but some people will have to be vaccinated as part of this survey.”
Adph and pediatrician chief doctor, Dr. Karen Landers, said in the statement that “the measles vaccine is safe and very effective in producing life immunity against this potentially fatal disease. Our citizens can protect themselves and the others, ensuring that all eligible people are vaccinated. ”
The news comes while the nation has been struggling with the greatest increase in measles for many years. The disease was declared eliminated in the country in 2000; The CDC warns that “although the United States still benefits from high population immunity from routine vaccination, the drop in immunization rates in school-aged children and communities with a vaccination coverage already low threatens a measles resurgence, as well as its potentially serious complications.”
Friday June 5, The CDC reported 1,168 cases confirmed in 34 jurisdictions – not to mention the suspected affair of Alabama reported on Sunday. On these cases, 137 people were hospitalized and three died; 95% of patients were not vaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown.
According to CDC Figures, Alabama Had no boxes in 2024 and 2023. While it was Immediately Clear when Alabama Had its Last Outbreak, It Might Have Been As Far Back As 2002, when an infant who Had Recently Been Backt Back from the Philippines Mostly affing boxes Other infants not vaccinated in a daycare. Before that, An epidemic in 1989 included 61 cases.
In A report published in February 2025The state health official, Scott Harris, said that measles “was once among the main causes of death of our state”, with 41 deaths in 1953 and 13 in 1964.
CDC classes all red as “the most contagious feverish rash disease, infecting up to 90% of sensitive narrow contacts and causing serious complications such as pneumonia, encephalitis and death.”
The Alabama Department of Public Health has A measles web page Offer resources for the public and for health care providers. The CDC Maintains an online dashboard Updated every week.
