25–524

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–524 Blanchard (includes the six deaths in the Territory of Alaska).
–518 CDC, MMWR, 13/554, 9-30-1965, p. 5 (Table 3.A).
–518 States. US PHS. Vital Statistics of the US 1954, Vol. II, Mortality Data. 1956, p. 370.
— 6 Alaska. US PHS. Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 30.
— 0 Hawaii. US PHS. Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 34.

Alabama 19 Montana 5
Alaska 6 Nebraska 3
Arizona 10 Nevada 1
Arkansas 2 New Hampshire 0
California 10 New Jersey 18
Colorado 6 New Mexico 10
Connecticut 7 New York 36
Delaware 0 North Carolina 35
District of Columbia 3 North Dakota 1
Florida 17 Ohio 25
Georgia 18 Oklahoma 3
Hawaii 0 Oregon 2
Idaho 4 Pennsylvania 34 (10 in Philadelphia.)
Illinois 16 Rhode Island 1
Indiana 15 South Carolina 20
Iowa 7 South Dakota 0
Kansas 3 Tennessee 11
Kentucky 27 Texas 36
Louisiana 9 Utah 1
Maine 3 Vermont 3
Maryland 10 Virginia 25
Massachusetts 6 Washington 9
Michigan 16 West Virginia 10
Minnesota 3 Wisconsin 2
Mississippi 5 Wyoming 2
Missouri 6

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.)

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Table 3. (A) Deaths From Specified Notifiable Diseases: United States, 1954-1963.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 13, No. 54, 9-30-1965, p. 5. Accessed 9-14-2016 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=VPvPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true

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 1954: 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, 1956. Accessed 5-7-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1954_1.pdf

United States Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the United States 1954, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, GPO, 1956. Accessed 5-7-2023 at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1954_2.pdf

Rosaler, Maxine. Epidemics: Deadly Diseases Throughout History – Measles. NY Rosen Publishing Group, 2005. Preview Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=4hQwgOcKEBUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false