KTLA-TV | "Researchers warn of millions of U.S. measles cases if shots decline"
Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology, was interviewed by KTLA-TV in Los Angeles on the measles outbreaks across the United States.
“We’re starting to see the spread of measles, which doesn’t respect state lines, doesn’t respect boundaries, and infection anywhere is potentially an infection anywhere, and especially with measles because it is a very contagious virus,” said Rimoin, Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health and director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health. “The only to reduce this spread, to stop it, is really to make sure we have vaccination rates as high as possible.”
Watch the entire KTLA-TV interview.
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