MidHudsonNews [dot] com is reporting Rockland County officials July 25, declared the county's measles crisis over. Since the measles outbreak began in October, there have been 283 confirmed cases in the county causing a state of emergency to be imposed. During the last three months the number of new confirmed cases has declined — by 29 percent in May, by 63 percent in June and by 42 percent in July, County Executive Edwin Day reported. “After a 13 percent increase in confirmed cases between March and April we have seen a steady decline since then. In short, to Rockland County, congratulations. We assured all back then when things looked very bleak, when we were the hardest hit area in the United States with 30 percent of the cases that we would beat this outbreak and we have,” he said. Since the outbreak began, the county has administered close to 26,000 MMR vaccinations. Read the full story at MidHudsonNews [dot] com.