The United States is likely to lose its measles elimination status this week after an international public health body reviews data from nearly two years of outbreaks amounting to more than 7,000 measles cases across the country.
The Pan-American Health Organization, part of the public health arm of the United Nations, will meet Tuesday through Thursday to determine whether measles has become endemic, or continuously circulating, in both Mexico and the U.S.
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