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Confirmed measles cases in Washington, DC and Virginia — including exposures at Dulles International Airport and the DC Metro system — are part of a national resurgence that has produced over 4,100 confirmed cases since January 2025, the worst stretch since 1992. Declining kindergarten MMR vaccination rates, federal public health funding cuts, and CDC leadership instability have converged to put U.S. measles elimination status, held since 2000, at serious risk of revocation by late 2026.