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Experts Warn More Measles Outbreaks ‘Will Undoubtedly Occur’

| March 10, 2015 Comment

Experts Warn More Measles Outbreaks ‘Will Undoubtedly Occur’ – Researchers say more measles outbreaks are sure to occur in the United States because of people refusing vaccinations.

So far this year, 170 people in 17 states have been sickened with measles, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of these cases are part of a large measles outbreak that started in Disneyland at the end of December.

Dr. Neal Halsey and Dr. Daniel Salmon, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an editorial published March 9th in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine that the outbreak captured attention in part because it has sickened infants who were too young to be vaccinated–as well as children who aren’t able to receive the vaccine for medical reasons.

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