The United States is working to drill down on whether outbreaks of measles are related, officials with the World Health Organization said on April 23.
U.S. officials are carrying out whole genome sequencing from samples to try to figure out whether the 2025 outbreak that spread in Texas is linked to other outbreaks, including an ongoing outbreak in Utah, the officials with the organization, known as the WHO, said at a press briefing.
“This is not something easy,” Daniel Salas, executive manager of an immunization program at the Pan American Health Organization, a regional WHO office, said, adding: “There is no country that has done this before.”…