Virology

Family medicine

Measles vaccine

Political science

Vaccination

Disease control

Medicine

Measles

MEDLINE

Scopus

Outbreak

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Hotez and colleagues 1 Hotez P.J. 2019. America and Europes new normal: the return of vaccine-preventable diseases. Nature. 2019; (published online February 27.)DOI:10.1038/s41390-019-0354-53 Google Scholar recent article highlights the increasing frequency of vaccine-preventable disease cases in Europe and the USA caused by very visible anti-vaccine movements. 2 Olive JK Hotez PJ Damania A Nolan MS 2018. The state of the antivaccine movement in the United States: A focused examination of nonmedical exemptions in states and counties. PLoS Med. 2018; 15: e1002578 Crossref PubMed Scopus (126) Google Scholar The most troubling aspect of this development is the global increase in measles cases. From Jan 1, 2019, to April 26, 2019, the USA reported 704 confirmed measles cases spanning 22 states, compared with 372 reported cases in 2018, 120 in 2017, 86 in 2016, 188 in 2015, and 667 in 2014. 3 Centers for Disease Control and PreventionMeasles cases and outbreaks. https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaksDate: 201...

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