By Marie Rosenthal, MS
The number of measles cases throughout the world almost doubled in 2023, and that unfortunate trend seems to be repeating itself in 2024, according to speakers at the 2024 ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID), in Barcelona, Spain.
The provisional global total of 321,582 cases of measles in 2023 was 88% higher than the 2022 figure, which was 171,153 cases, according to Patrick O’Connor, MD, MPH, of the World Health Organization, who gave an update at the meeting