{"id":7462,"date":"2024-08-27T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:26:33","slug":"u-s-faces-growing-measles-outbreaks-as-vaccine-skepticism-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/08\/27\/u-s-faces-growing-measles-outbreaks-as-vaccine-skepticism-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. faces growing measles outbreaks as vaccine skepticism rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91177512\/u-s-faces-growing-measles-outbreaks-as-vaccine-skepticism-rises\">Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans\u2019 faith in vaccines is fading, and it\u2019s corresponding with a rapid rise in some diseases. Oregon recently experienced its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oregoncapitalchronicle.com\/2024\/07\/19\/oregons-measles-outbreak-biggest-in-five-years-expands-to-six-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biggest measles outbreak<\/a>&nbsp;in five years:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/2024\/08\/21\/oregons-measles-outbreak-impacts-30-unvaccinated-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30 cases<\/a>, all among people who are not vaccinated. As of mid-August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 219 measles cases in the United States, up from 59 last year\u2014a 271% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/648308\/far-fewer-regard-childhood-vaccinations-important.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new poll<\/a>&nbsp;from Gallup, the percentage of Americans who say vaccinating their children is essential has dropped from 58% in 2019 to 40%. Only 51% believe the government should require children to be vaccinated, down from 62% in 2019. Meanwhile, a CDC report found that vaccination rates dropped from 95% among kindergarteners during the 2019-2020 school year to 93% two years later. Two percent may not seem like much, but for diseases like measles, herd immunity becomes threatened when the vaccination rate falls below&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yalemedicine.org\/news\/herd-immunity\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">95%.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Erin Corriveau, an associate professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Kansas Health System and a practicing physician, believes that the COVID pandemic may have caused some people to question vaccinations. \u201cThere was a lot of misinformation and disinformation from internet sources like TikTok, Reddit, etc.,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91177512\/u-s-faces-growing-measles-outbreaks-as-vaccine-skepticism-rises\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company Americans\u2019 faith in vaccines is fading, and it\u2019s corresponding with a rapid rise in some diseases. Oregon recently experienced its&nbsp;biggest measles outbreak&nbsp;in five years:&nbsp;30 cases, all among people who are not vaccinated. As of mid-August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 219 measles cases in the United States, up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7463,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions\/7463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}