Since last September seven cases have been reported in an ongoing outbreak among drug users in Worcester, Mass.
If the ongoing outbreak in Cape Verde is the same strain from Brazil, it has completely circumnavigated the globe.
But in controversial comments MacIntyre said this was a mistake, with 120 healthcare worker deaths reported during the ongoing outbreak so far, which is also the worst recorded.
In South Sudan, efforts to contain an ongoing outbreak continue, with 5,141 cases causing more than 100 deaths recorded as of 21 July.
The ongoing outbreak is mainly in teenagers and young adults, but there are also high numbers of cases in very young babies – 235 cases have been reported in infants under three months this year, compared with 112 cases in 2008.
Mary Ramsay, the agency's head of immunisation, said: "We are working closely with the Department of Health's Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation to consider the most effective ways to tackle the ongoing outbreak.
The rapid diagnosis of suspected cases is essential for the monitoring and control of this ongoing outbreak.
"At this time, it is believed that the outbreak in DRC is unrelated to the ongoing outbreak in West Africa," says a WHO statement issued today.
The WHO says that the scale of the ongoing outbreak is "unprecedented", with about 1,323 confirmed and suspected cases reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since March 2014.
Most of the cases of measles reported so far in 2015 are part of a large, ongoing outbreak linked to Disneyland in Anaheim, California, according to the California Department of Public Health CDPH).
While the imam had Ebola-like symptoms, he was not tested for the hemorrhagic fever that has claimed more than 5,000 lives in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia during the ongoing outbreak.
