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The United States has recorded nearly 4,000 measles cases across 2025 and 2026, the worst sustained outbreak since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Infants under 12 months — too young for the standard MMR vaccine — face hospitalization rates as high as 65%, yet public health authorities have been slow to issue aggressive early-dose recommendations, and declining vaccination coverage nationwide continues to erode the herd immunity that once shielded them.