医疗服务提供者于1月在南卡罗来纳州评估一名出现麻疹症状的患者。
Medical providers assess a patient with measles symptoms in South Carolina in January.
图片：Juan Diego Reyes为《华盛顿邮报》拍摄，通过Getty Images发布 数据凸显病毒传播情况，麻疹于2000年在美国被正式宣布消除，但CDC未指出死亡病例所在州份 美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）周四在其网站发布的数据显示，今年美国报告了6例麻疹相关死亡病例，因为该国正面临数十年来最严重的疫情反弹。
Photograph: Juan Diego Reyes for The Washington Post via Getty Images Figures highlight spread of virus, officially declared eliminated in US in 2000, but CDC does not identify which states accounted for deaths The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported six measles-related deaths in the US this year, according to figures published on its website on Thursday, as the country faces its most severe resurgence of the disease in decades.
新报告的总数是2025年记录的死亡人数的两倍，凸显了这种高传染性病毒的传播，该病毒于2000年在美国被正式宣布消除。
The newly reported total is twice the number of deaths recorded in 2025, highlighting the spread of the highly infectious virus, which was officially declared eliminated in the US in 2000.
美国目前正经历自1991年以来最大规模的麻疹疫情。根据约翰斯·霍普金斯大学国际疫苗获取中心追踪器的数据，全国报告病例超过5400例。宾夕法尼亚州是此次疫情受影响最严重的州，官员确认该州今年发生6例麻疹相关死亡病例。一名儿童在选举日于纽约死亡，几天后威斯康星州一名婴儿死亡。几乎每个美国州都报告了活跃疫情。
The country is currently experiencing its largest measles outbreak since 1991. More than 5,400 cases reported nationwide, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center tracker Pennsylvania has been the state most severely affected by the outbreak, with officials confirming six measles-associated deaths in the state this year. A child also died in New York on election day, followed days later by the death of an infant in Wisconsin. Active outbreaks have been reported in nearly every US state.
威斯康星州卫生服务部确认了该婴儿的死亡，而纽约记录了30多年来首例已知麻疹相关死亡病例。CDC未指出其官方统计的6例死亡病例分别来自哪些州。
The Wisconsin department of health services confirmed the infant’s death, while New York recorded its first known measles-related fatality in more than three decades. The CDC did not identify which states accounted for the six deaths included in its official count.
报告数字的差异源于CDC在改变追踪麻疹死亡病例的方式，CDC现由美国卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪领导 CDC现在使用国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）的数据，这是一种追踪长期死亡率趋势的方式，根据该机构网站于9月4日发布的一份说明。
The difference in the reported figures followed a change in how the CDC, operating under US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, tracks measles fatalities The CDC is now using data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is a way to track mortality trends over time, according to a note published to the agency’s website on 4 September.
肯尼迪此前曾在没有证据的情况下声称，宾夕法尼亚州的两例死亡病例可能并非由麻疹导致。据路透社报道，他要求疾控中心主任埃里卡·施瓦茨不要将这两例死亡计入疾控中心的官方统计数字。路透社报道发布的第二天，疾控中心更改了麻疹死亡病例的数据来源。
Kennedy previously argued without evidence that two of the deaths in Pennsylvania may not be from measles. He asked Erica Schwartz, the CDC’s director, not to count the deaths in the official CDC tally, according to reporting by Reuters. The day after the Reuters report was published, the CDC changed its data source on measles deaths.
麻疹可通过麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹（MMR）疫苗预防，接种两剂后可提供约 97% 的保护力。
Measles is preventable through the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which offers approximately 97% protection after two doses.
美国可能本周失去麻疹消除地位，这一事态发展恐将进一步界定肯尼迪在疫苗政策上干预的遗产。失去该认定将使美国与加拿大以及欧洲、亚洲多个此前已消除麻疹、后又卷土重来的国家并列。
The US could lose its measles elimination status this week, a development likely to further define Kennedy ’s legacy of interference in vaccine policies. Losing that designation would place the US alongside Canada and several countries in Europe and Asia where measles had previously been eliminated before making a comeback.