UPDATE: Measles cases in US spike to highest level since 2000.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.reported in New York, New Jersey and California bring the total number of infections in the U.S. to 671 so far in 2019, the most for a year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.
The second-highest number for measles cases in the U.S. was 667 in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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