Utah

Utah is a Mountain West US state whose economy centres on technology, tourism and outdoor recreation around Salt Lake City, alongside a large Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints population that shapes its politics and social fabric.

In 2026 it recorded the highest state measles count in the US resurgence, 514 self-reported cases against a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figure of 522, in a year where the nationwide tally, 2,318 confirmed by 24 July, moved past the 2,289 recorded across the whole of 2025. The discrepancy between the state and federal counts reflects the assembly of fifty separate state reporting systems into one national total. The state's vaccination exemption policies have drawn separate scrutiny as a contributing factor to its outbreak size, though this briefing does not attribute causation beyond the reported case totals.