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–688 States, DC, Territories of Alaska and Hawaii –683 States. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1951: Vol. II . … Table 58, p. 364. — 2 AK. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1951: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 20. — 3 HI. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1951: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 32. Alabama 21 Montana 9 Alaska 2 Nebraska 4 Arizona 18 Nevada 3 Arkansas 15 New Hampshire 2 California (4th high) 37 New Jersey 8 Colorado 5 New Mexico 16 Connecticut 1 New York 23 (9th highest loss of life – tie) Delaware 2 North Carolina 6 District of Columbia 0 North Dakota 7 Florida 5 Ohio 39 (3rd highest loss of life) Georgia (9th high tie) 23 Oklahoma 25 (8th highest loss of life) Hawaii 3 Oregon 7 Idaho 4 Pennsylvania (7th high)26 Illinois (5th high) 31 Rhode Island 2 Indiana 10 South Carolina 2 Iowa 4 South Dakota 4 Kansas 16 Tennessee 18 Kentucky (2nd high) 43 Texas 102 (Highest loss of life.) Louisiana 13 Utah 2 Maine 7 Vermont 2 Maryland 4 Virginia 22 (10th highest loss of life) Massachusetts 6 Washington 13 Michigan 12 West Virginia 5 Minnesota 6 Wisconsin 6 Mississippi 15 Wyoming 2 Missouri (6th high) 30 Narrative Information CDC: “Measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person. It can spread to others through coughing and sneezing. Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. If other people breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch their eyes, noses, or mouths, they can become infected. Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. Infected people can spread measles to others from four days before through four days after the rash appears. Measles is a disease of humans; measles virus is not spread by any other animal species.” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Transmission of Measles. 2-5-2018 last review. Measles: “The measles virus can live in the air for two hours after an infected persons leaves the room. People can also get measles if they have direct contact with fluid from the nose or mouth of an infected person. Once introduced into a person’s respiratory system, the measles virus proceeds to attach itself to the lining of the airways. Drawing energy from this new host, the virus begins to multiply and spread throughout the body.” (Rosaler, Maxine. Measles. NY: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2005, pp. 7-8.) Sources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Transmission of Measles. 2-5-2018 last review. Accessed 4-12-2019 at: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/transmission.html Public Health Service. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the US 1952: Vol. I. Introduction and Summary Tables for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. Marriage, Divorce, Natality, Fetal Mortality and Infant Mortality Data. U.S. GPO, 1955. Accessed 6-15-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1952_1.pdf Public Health Service. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the US 1951: Vol. I. Introduction and Summary Tables for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. Marriage, Divorce, Natality, Fetal Mortality and Infant Mortality Data. U.S. GPO, 1954. Accessed 8-12-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1952_1.pdf Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the United States 1951, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954. Accessed 8-12-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1952_2.pdf