Big Measles Outbreaks Linked To Troubling Trend

Big Measles Outbreaks Linked To Troubling Trend

A recent measles outbreak at a religious preschool in Vancouver with a vaccination rate of nearly zero points to a troubling trend. Large outbreaks in the past year are closely tied to pockets of unvaccinated individuals within insular religious communities, some of which have been critical of the measles vaccine, rather than to statewide vaccination rates.

Infographic by Alissa Scheller for the Huffington Post.

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