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CDC: Measles on the rise in US

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What about Sunday house call health officials are raising some new questions after a recent report.

Showed that last year in the US saw the highest number of measles cases we have had -- fifteen years.

Doctor somebody I thought we were all vaccinated for measles it's back.

Well you know that we have we had a discussion about this I don't think measles is on the rise I think people are just as a result of some of the media attention recently about vaccination of possible autism.

Which is really no scientific data to back it up people are not getting vaccination enough and that's one of the reasons last -- CBC announced 222.

Measles cases of -- in the country now.

It's contagious you get it through cough drop lets you absolutely should get vaccinated you're vaccinated you're not gonna get the sort of like who it is very very rare.

If you don't obviously this can lead to bronchitis and pneumonia can really spread across the country so.

I don't think this is really big news here mark may disagree with this but I think as long as you get -- -- you should be covered.

I agree with that point -- -- going to be get vaccinated you're gonna you're covered and 222 cases -- still not a lot but keep in mind that.

200 million people died of measles over the last 150 years in the world.

It's still a big problem and under developed countries 13 of measles cases gets hospitalized.

And we need to think about something called herd immunity which is what David started to bring up you need the whole -- vaccinated.

Of those two urgently to cases most of them were unvaccinated.

In Europe is a huge problem with people not getting the vaccine and guess what happens.

You fly over there you pick up measles and you bring it back most of the 220 cases came from Europe.

So we need to focus on this vaccination issue I want people out there know that measles is much more contagious than the flu that we're always talking about here.

So we can really spread rare very quickly so we want and people don't know -- and to get the MMR vaccine and I.

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