MEASLES. “There was a shift in thought that ‘maybe I don’t need vaccines for things that I haven’t seen,’”…”The measles vaccine has in some ways become a victim of its own success; those who haven’t encountered measles before don’t understand why it needs to be prevented…”

MEASLES. “For all practical purposes measles has returned to the United States, both in terms of cases and hospitalizations, as well as two needless deaths.  We should expect our annual winter-spring surges of measles to get even worse in subsequent years.  And it won’t be just measles—pertussis is also returning, and other childhood infectious diseases might follow.””