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March 2008 - Amid all of the very highly publicized concerns about vaccine safety from celebrities (Jenny McCarthy, Oprah, etc.) and the media and calls from some people for fewer vaccines and alternative immunization schedules, California quietly had a measles outbreak last month.

http://pediatrics.about.com/b/2008/03/18/california-measles-outbreak.htm

July, 2010 - outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) in California highest in decades, resulted in death of 9 infants under 3 months of age.

http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebiz/2...tion-movement/

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/paren...fornia-1828859

http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2010/...ne-exemptions/