Measles- Vaccinate

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Recently, there has been an outbreak of measles within the U.S at Disneyland and other places. This has struck numerous Americans by surprise since there's a vaccine that helped almost completely annihilate measles after 1982. But when individuals, especially children, are not vaccinated for this and other diseases it puts not only themselves but the surrounding individuals at risk. Some reasons for not having a child vaccinated can be religious beliefs, mistrust in medicine such as thinking it will cause autism (which it has been proven not to "click for link of study"), and children simply being too young to get vaccinated. 

Unfortunately, this non-vaccinated group is more susceptible to catch measles and other diseases at a 90% infection rate after exposure. This puts vaccinated children and adults at risk, which many people may think how does that happen, how can people who are vaccinated get the disease from which they were vaccinated for? Well, since the purpose of a vaccination is to introduce a weaker version of a virus as to set up the immune system to design antibodies specifically for that virus it would be a common thought that the body would be ready for pathogens that the U.S has vaccinations for. 

Yet, some people do not have the reaction of their immune system that is required to produce specific cytokines (response callers to white blood cells) that would help monocytes and macrophages (cells in the immune system that "digest" foreign pathogens) to develop in order to fight off a measles exposure. The current measles outbreak has a possibility of naturally being stopped with a combination of high quality health care in the U.S and the high numbers of vaccinated individuals. 

Attached below is a link to the WHO (World Health Organization) with facts and statistics on the measles virus.

WHO (MEASLES)