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Utah’s year-long measles outbreak has hit over 680 cases across nearly every county, sparking alarms as schools, stores, and sporting events become hotspots — a stark reminder of measles’ contagious power despite near-perfect vaccine efficacy. The worst-hit areas include the southwest and rural northeast, where low vaccination rates — like just 16% of kindergarteners unvaccinated in one region — fueled the spread. Yet officials in some hard-hit zones credit their response: isolating sick kids, keeping unvaccinated children out of school, and prioritizing community outreach over enforcement — which helped shift some minds. This outbreak now threatens the U.S.’s measles-free status, as health experts prepare to review the situation in November, following Canada’s loss last year. With national case counts climbing toward last year’s record and early cases possibly linked to the Utah-Arizona border outbreak, experts fear a resurgence as schools reopen and weather turns colder — warning that even a few cases in the wrong community could reignite the epidemic.

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