Los Angeles Daily News | "Measles has returned to Southern California; here’s what you need to know"
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed Dr. Timothy Brewer, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of epidemiology.
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Timothy Brewer, professor of epidemiology at FSPH and a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, for a story on the outbreak of measles in the United States, including in Texas, New Mexico, and California.
“To prevent an outbreak from happening, you need to vaccinate about 95% of the susceptible population because measles is so contagious. It’s just about the most contagious pathogen that we know,” Brewer said.
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