Measles Resurgence
A vaccine-preventable disease returning as immunisation coverage slips.
Severity score
35.6
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Measles cases have surged following pandemic-era disruption to routine immunisation and growing vaccine refusal. Outbreaks concentrate in under-vaccinated communities and conflict zones, and the disease also suppresses immunity to other infections for years afterwards.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
44Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
48People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
14Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
74Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.