Update: Another Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania

The latest measles outbreak in Pennsylvania I posted about in my last post has spread to Delaware. What started in a children’s hospital in Philadelphia among unvaccinated children has spread to other children and adults. As I have been posting, this outbreak is but the latest in America, as in Europe, since vaccine hesitancy since the 2010s has revived measles and other diseases that had nearly been eradicated into common contagions again. The measles outbreak is occurring amidst an early peak of the influenza season in the northern hemisphere and a sharp spike in the Coronavirus-2019, among other contagious respiratory illnesses. Like measles, mumps and diphtheria, all these diseases are exacerbated by hesitancy to receive vaccines that are effective and safe.