A New York county has banned unvaccinated children from all public spaces as the state battles its largest measles outbreak in decades. Amid concerns about the growing measles outbreak, Rockland County tried something similar last year. As The Washington Post’s Reis Thebault reported, public health officials there barred unvaccinated children from attending schools with vaccination rates lower than 95 percent. In 2000 — almost four decades after parents began vaccinating their children — measles was declared eliminated in the United States. CDC data shows that from 2000 to 2018, there were an average of 140 measles cases per year in the United States.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2019 17:17 UTC