2025

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.

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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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