By Devna Bose, Associated Press
The darling of increasing cases is increasing and doctors are preparing for another difficult year.
According to preliminary centers for Disease Control and Prevention centers. It is twice as many cases that this time last year, on the basis of the final CDC counting.
Pek or darling rates soaked last year, which, according to experts, was not unexpected. The number of cases dropped during COVID-19 due to masking and social distancing. In addition, the experts said, the disease culminates every two to five years.
But experts say that epidemics of vaccine preventable diseases, such as measles and darling, could indicate changing attitudes towards vaccines. US kindergarten vaccination rates dropped last year, and the number of children with vaccine exemptions has reached a summit of all time.
“Unfortunately, the anti-vaccine feeling in the United States was increased there,” said Dr. Errica Hayes at the Philadelphia children’s hospital. “Our recovery is not as fast as we expected it to be and we needed it. And again, when you fall below 95% for vaccinations, you lose this protection against the immunity of the herd.”
Pek tends to peak towards this period of the year and in the fall. It generally spreads through respiratory droplets in the air, when people with pews cough, sneeze or breathe near the others. Symptoms are similar to a cold but cough becomes more and more serious with a distinctive sound – a “darling” while the person tries to get some fresh air. It is treated with antibiotics.
Over the past six months, two babies in Louisiana and a 5 -year -old child in Washington states downtime.
The darling vaccine, which also protects against diphtheria and tetanus, is given two months, four months and six months. The CDC recommends that adults obtain follow -up doses every 10 years.
The disease is the most dangerous for infants, especially before receiving their first cycle of vaccinations. This is why the vaccine is also recommended to expect mothers – it can protect newborns. But not enough people receive the vaccine during pregnancy, said Hayes, who is the principal medical director of the infection prevention and control hospital.
“The absorption of the vaccine for pregnant mothers is not where we must be at all,” she said.
Pennsylvania, one of the states hardest reached by the disease last year, recorded 207 cases of darling in 2025.
Neil Ruhland, spokesperson for the State Department of Health, said that the biggest increases are in populated areas like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and in colleges and colleges. He said 94.6% of state gardens are vaccinated.
Michigan is on the right track for a season similar to darling to that of last year, said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, state medical director. The state has recorded 516 cases so far, mainly in children aged 5 to 17, and saw a total of 2,081 cases in 2024.
Bagdasarian said the vaccination rates vary from one county to another. Some schools have rates as low as 30%, creating pockets of communities vulnerable to vaccine preventable diseases such as darling and measles, she said.
“We are very closely looking at the dubbing figures, but many of our resources come into contact in the tracing of our measles at the moment,” she said. “And public health is doing much more with fewer resources in 2025 than we had to do before.”
The data journalist AP Kasturi Pananjady contributed to this report.
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