US loses measles-elimination status after 26 years, WSJ reports

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The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States' measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run, after finding the country failed to stop the virus spreading continuously for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. A source close to the process told CNN that an independent commission of experts reporting to PAHO's director concluded the US no longer qualified. PAHO reviewed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) evidence on whether one strain had circulated uninterrupted for 12 months or longer, a sign of local spread rather than imported cases . A source familiar with the CDC's findings told Reuters the agency found 12 months of continuous transmission.