[troutman]

http://gothamskeptic.org/the-new-plague/

Measles
Soon after the infamous Wakefield paper was published in 1998, vaccination rates against measles, mumps, and rubella, plummeted in the U.K. Outbreaks of these diseases began popping up all over the region, eventually reaching epidemic proportions. And, although the fictional link between the MMR and autism arose over 10 years ago, there’s no sign that things are getting any better. Last year saw the highest incidence of measles cases in the UK in over 20 years, all due to pockets of underimmunization resulting from media coverage of Wakefield’s discredited findings. Predictably, it wasn’t long before the wave of fear reached our shores. Although not as widespread, this uprising against vaccines, based on nothing but pseudo-science and newly spawned campaigns of misinformation, began to create a dangerous climate of vaccine refusal here in the U.S. It didn’t take long for outbreaks of mumps and measles to occur in areas scattered throughout the country. In 2006, the largest outbreak of mumps in over 15 years, centered in Iowa and involving 10 other states, effected over 2,500 people. Last year, measles cases in 15 states contributed to the largest US outbreak in over 10 years. In Brooklyn, an unimmunized traveler from Israel infected other unimmunized children in a pediatrician’s office, sparking the borough’s largest outbreak of measles in almost 20 years. Other recent outbreaks in Indiana, San Diego, Arizona, Milwaukee, Washington State, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas are just the tip of the iceberg if this dangerous trend of vaccine refusal continues.

http://www.cdc.gov/measles/outbreaks.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...nics-1.2190840
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/measl...-outbreaks.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles...e_21st_century