The anti-vaccine lobby has only grown more powerful as measles spreads across the U.S. Unless congressional action is taken, other vaccine-preventable diseases are likely to rise.
Almost 20 years after measles was eliminated in the United States, there are signs that the disease is back. So far in 2019, there have been almost 800 measles cases across America, and it’s not clear what might happen next.
The bad news is that measles has also returned to Europe, so that with frequent summer travel to and from countries such as Italy, France and Greece, measles might be frequently reintroduced into unvaccinated populations. And based on our research published last year in the Public Library of Science, there are at least 100 pockets in the U.S. where large numbers of kids are not being vaccinated.
Then there is the political arm. The anti-vaccine movement has created more than a dozen new nonprofits and political action committees, each lobbying state legislatures to enforce vaccine exemptions. Finally, there is a new and scary element to the anti-vaccine movement in which some of its national leaders or organizations appear to have targeted specific ethnic groups to flood them with misinformation through pamphlets, teleconferences and hotlines. This development may explain the recent measles outbreak in New York among the Orthodox Jewish community, resulting in many hospitalizations and sending at least six patients to intensive care.
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