Because measles outbreaks could be the new normality
While the Trump administration moves to dismantle the safeguards of international public health, extract funding from the local health departments and legitimize health disinformation, some experts now fear that the country is preparing the foundations for a long -term rebirth of measles.If federal health officials do not change course, large multistate outbreaks such as the one he has torn through western Texas, jumping into neighboring states and killing two people, can become the norm."We really opened the door so that this virus will return" said dr. Thomas R. Frieden, former director of the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases.In order for a outbreak to occur in the United States, the virus must first be imported into the country and must reach a large and not vaccinated...