Thanks to widespread vaccination, measles had been considered “eliminated” as a continually transmitting illness in the United States since 2000 – but not anymore.

An independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization determined that the US no longer qualified as having eliminated measles, a source close to the process told CNN on Friday. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The decision was widely expected after years of falling vaccination levels and surging case counts, but it’s still a black mark on the nation’s public health policy.

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MAGGA-Make all Germs Great Again.

Seems like tRUMP is determined to make USA one of those shit-hole countries he likes to denigrate. Does that mean people from Europe, and Canada, etc. will have to check measels vaccine status before visiting the USA? In the USA, some people of a certain age most likely only received one Measels vaccine, instead of the recommended updated two vaccines.

Should these people get another vacccine, to increase their immunity even if by just a little; or just trust this administration to tell you the truth to keep you safe? If you do want to get the vaccine a second time, you will likely have to tell the big chain pharmicies you are traveling to one of the countries outside USA, that has a measels problem. Now, before someone chimes in and says it is a bad idea, because you will take vaccines away from people that want to get it; consider there is currently no shortage of the vaccine-and every vaccine denier that risks their children, frees up another vaccine (theoretically). Again, this is only for people of certain age that likely received only 1 measels vaccine, instead of recommended two; and do not have natural immunity from having measels, before vaccines were available.

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