All measles cases occurred in unvaccinated children.
GPEI said the viruses are closely related each other and a variant that circulated in Egypt in the last half of 2023.
Like Pakistan, Afghanistan has now passed the number of polio cases it reported in 2023.
The team arrived at 6 target pathogens: the viruses that cause polio, influenza A, influenza B, mpox, COVID-19, and measles.
Pakistan's cases have now passed its total for all of 2023. Meanwhile, Benin, Guinea, and Indonesia reported their first vaccine-derived cases of 2024.
South Africa has identified 6 new mpox cases in an outbreak that began in late May.
Both countries have now reported 5 cases this year, almost as many as they reported in all of 2023.
New CDC data show upticks in early COVID-19 indicators, but severity indicators remain unchanged from the previous week.
Chicago, after recording 64 measles cases and administering more than 30,000 vaccine doses, has passed 2 incubation periods with no new infections.
The FLiRT variants are fueling new COVID-19 waves in some countries, but so far US markers don't show major upticks.