The number of measles cases this year has become the highest since 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 24. That’s up from 2,289 cases in 2025 and the highest since 1991, when 9,643 cases were recorded. As Zachary Stieber reports for The Epoch Times, some doctors said the jump in cases stems from lower numbers of people receiving vaccines against measles. The measles vaccination rate among kindergartners in 2024 and 2025 was 92.5 percent, down from 95 percent in 2019 and 2020. Another 3 percent had received one dose of a measles vaccine, and another 4 percent had received two doses.