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Measles Outbreak in AZ can’t be blamed on anti-vaccination Parents
http://www.wxow.com/story/32396172/arizona-is-site-of-largest-current-us-measles-outbreakRemember the 2015 Measles outbreak? Remember how it touched off a call for compulsory vaccination and the general scorning of anyone who expressed even the slightest skepticism of vaccinations? By the numbers, in the USA there were 667 reported cases of Measles in 2014, the year before the ‘Disney Outbreak’ hysteria. There were 189 cases in 2015, the year of Measles headlines and new legislation to require vaccination for children in some states.
Missing from the public debate in 2015, was the critical role that transmission between adults played in ‘Disney Outbreak’. I am still somewhat perplexed, that public policy went first to compulsory vaccination of children, but never considered requiring federal employees working in a high risk environment be vaccinated. The greatest risk of a sustained Measles epidemic is from adults with inadequate immunity, either because they received inactive virus vaccine, or only 1 dose during childhood.