Resurgence of a Preventable Crisis: How Declining Immunization Rates and Misinformation Brought Measles Back to the United States
Executive Overview Twenty-five years after public health officials triumphantly declared measles eliminated from the United States, the highly contagious virus has made a formidable and alarming return. Once viewed as a relic of pre-twentieth-century medicine—largely suppressed by decades of robust, community-wide vaccination programs—measles is once again threatening public health infrastructure nationwide. The root cause of…
