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Marcos López Hoyos
Scientific Director of the Valdecilla Health Research Institute (IDIVAL), Head of the Immunology Department, and Professor of Immunology at the University of Cantabria-Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
Although infection numbers and deaths appear to have fallen in 2025 compared with 2024, they remain very high for a preventable infection when vaccination coverage is adequate, and far from the levels we had at the beginning of this century.
Unfortunately, in some countries the number of cases seems to have increased, and Spain may be one of them, given that the WHO has already announced that measles transmission is endemic. All of this can only be explained by a reduction in vaccination coverage in our population.
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