US set to lose measles elimination status: The ‘house is on fire’

While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains

How many measles cases are going undetected? Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Utah, said in some communities, getting tested means a tank of gas, missing work, finding a babysitter. “If your kid has a measles rash but isn’t very sick, why would you bother?”

US set to lose measles elimination status: The ‘house is on fire’

Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease is eliminated, something that infectious disease specialists say is directly related to President Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). South Carolina [...]