Measles Rises Again: The Science and Policy of a Preventable Outbreak

Tuesday, 3rd of November 2015 Print

By 2000, measles was all but eliminated in the United States. But as the severity of the disease became a more distant memory an increasing number of parents have been opting not to vaccinate their kids. The measles outbreak which started spreading at Disneyland in late-December had sickened more than 100 people in 7 states most of whom had not been vaccinated and measles cases have also occurred in at least 7 other states. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health convened world experts on measles vaccine safety and vaccine acceptance to discuss how the virus has re-emerged and what can be done to reverse the tide.

Among the speakers were retired U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman ABC Chief Health and Medical Editor Richard Besser and several experts right here at the Bloomberg School including Neal Halsey Daniel Salmon Diane Griffin and Josh Sharfstein.

Find the videos in the link below;

http://www.jhsph.edu/events/2015/measles-symposium/webcast.html


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AMINA 

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