By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 29, 2014 - TopicsExpress



          

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 29, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Measles cases in the United States are at a 20-year high so far this year. And nearly all the cases involve unvaccinated U.S. residents whove traveled abroad to countries where the respiratory disease is much more prevalent, federal health officials said Thursday. The current increase in measles cases is being driven by unvaccinated people, primarily U.S. residents, who got measles in other countries, brought the virus back to the United States and spread [it] to others in communities where many people are not vaccinated, Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Anne Schuchat said in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention news release. Many of the clusters in the U.S. began following travel to the Philippines, where a large outbreak has been occurring since October 2013, added Schuchat, whos also director of CDCs National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. ...
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:49:51 +0000

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