Making Financial Headlines · Page 10
Measles outbreaks hand the economy a bill nobody ordered
· New York time
A new tool developed by Johns Hopkins researchers estimates that the 2025 US measles outbreak carried an economic cost of more than $37 million. The figure is an estimate produced by the tool, not a tally of identical expenses for every community. It puts a price on part of the disruption associated with an outbreak as measles surges in the United States. Public health problems have a habit of turning up in financial ledgers too, although the ledger cannot capture every human consequence. The virus did not ask for a budget, but communities still had to contend with its costs.
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