18– 552

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–385 USPHS Vital Statistics of the US 1958: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics. HEW, 1960. p. 518.

Alabama 11 Montana 2
Alaska ? Nebraska 6
Arizona 8 Nevada 0
Arkansas 5 New Hampshire 2
California 12 New Jersey 3
Colorado 8 New Mexico 13
Connecticut 4 New York 28
Delaware 3 North Carolina 28
District of Columbia 6 North Dakota 1
Florida 13 Ohio 36
Georgia 14 Oklahoma 7
Hawaii ? Oregon 5
Idaho 2 Pennsylvania 28
Illinois 34 Rhode Island 4
Indiana 20 South Carolina 13
Iowa 3 South Dakota 0
Kansas 3 Tennessee 16
Kentucky 23 Texas 50
Louisiana 12 Utah 2
Maine 1 Vermont 2
Maryland 18 Virginia 16
Massachusetts 3 Washington 7
Michigan 18 West Virginia 14
Minnesota 1 Wisconsin 18
Mississippi 18 Wyoming 1
Missouri 10

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. Vital Statistics of the United States 1958, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960. Accessed 2-19-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1958_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