Above an image of a child with blotchy skin, the Kent County (Michigan) Health Department asks its Facebook community, “Think you might have measles symptoms?”
The department is hoping the county’s answer remains no.
Amid the highest number of measles cases in the United States in more than 30 years, Kent County, Maryland’s kindergarten MMR vaccination rate — measles, mumps and rubella — lags behind the rest of the state at 88%. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 95% of the population must be vaccinated to be protected through herd immunity, and Kent is the only county in the state below this threshold…