This year, 555 people have already come down with measles nationwide. That’s 1½ times as many measles cases as there were all last year in the U.S. skarlamangla explains how you can protect yourself from contracting measles.
Signs posted in January at a clinic in Vancouver, Wash., warn patients and visitors of a measles outbreak. The United States declared measles eradicated in 2000 as the number of people infected each year fell to zero.
As numbers continue to climb, we decided to answer some questions that Californians may have about measles, especially if they’re worried about catching it.Yes. Most of the people who have fallen sick in California this year were adults. Kids are particularly susceptible though, because they don’t receive their first measles vaccine until age 1.
There is one small exception, however. People who were vaccinated against measles between 1963 and 1967 may have gotten a type of vaccine that did not work. Those people should be re-vaccinated, according to the CDC.
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