Study: US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again

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Study: US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again
Just a tiny increase in vaccine refusals will triple measles cases, cost US millions.
BETH MOLE - 7/25/2017, 3:35 PM

With firm vaccination campaigns, the US eliminated measles in 2000. The highly infectious virus was no longer constantly present in the country—no longer endemic. Since then, measles has only popped up when travelers carried it in, spurring mostly small outbreaks—ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred cases each year—that then fizzle out.

But all that may be about to change. With the rise of non-medical vaccine exemptions and delays, the country is backsliding toward endemic measles, Stanford and Baylor College of Medicine researchers warn this week. With extensive disease modeling, the researchers make clear just how close we are to seeing explosive, perhaps unshakeable, outbreaks.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/study-us-is-slipping-toward-measles-being-endemic-once-again/?comments=1

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1. yup the pseudo science anti-vexers are busy at work. For adults measles can turn into a life

threatening disease very quickly.

A couple years back I requested a test for the Measles, Mumps, Rubella Antibody, to see if the vaccination I had as a child was still effective, and it appeared to be so.

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2. All this anti-science hysteria is going to cost this country

At the same time the damn republicans are gutting health care for the non rich.

Get ready for uncontrolled epidemics sweeping the nation again like the "good old days" huh?

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3. All the programs and funding for scientific research is being cut. The only hope is that the

other countries around the world will pick up the slack.