26– 530

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–530 — 530 CDC, MMWR, 13/554, 9-30-1965, p. 5 (Table 3.A).
–530 USPHS Vital Statistics of the US 1956: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics, p. 380.

Alabama 13 Montana 1
Alaska ? Nebraska 9
Arizona 6 Nevada 0
Arkansas 15 New Hampshire 0
California 15 New Jersey 7
Colorado 16 New Mexico 9
Connecticut 1 New York 7th 24
Delaware 0 North Carolina 4th 29
District of Columbia 0 North Dakota 0
Florida 6 Ohio 3rd 30
Georgia 9th 20 Oklahoma 15
Hawaii ? Oregon 1
Idaho 1 Pennsylvania 5th 28
Illinois 1st 41 Rhode Island 0
Indiana 17 South Carolina 12
Iowa 9 South Dakota 5
Kansas 8 Tennessee 10th 19
Kentucky 13 Texas 2nd 31
Louisiana 15 Utah 2
Maine 1 Vermont 0
Maryland 8 Virginia 8th 23
Massachusetts 1 Washington 2
Michigan 6th 26 West Virginia 11th 18
Minnesota 3 Wisconsin 8
Mississippi 9 Wyoming 1
Missouri 12

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. “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

United States Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the United States 1956, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, GPO, 1958. Accessed 4-2-2023 at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1956_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