Overview
- Most infections remain linked to the tight-knit Colorado City–Hildale community that spans the state line.
- Cases have been identified in Hurricane and St. George following hospital and urgent-care exposures, and officials report community spread.
- Transmission has reached Iron County, widening the affected area that includes popular tourist destinations near Zion National Park.
- Utah health officials now count 58 cases statewide, including 44 in the Southwest Utah Health District, with seven hospitalizations.
- Childhood MMR coverage in Iron (82.4%), Washington (79.2%), and Mohave (78.4%) counties is far below the ~95% threshold, as the CDC reports 1,618 U.S. cases across 42 states this year, the most in 33 years.