With Indiana’s first case of the measles this year reported Tuesday near Fort Wayne, you might be wondering whether you’re fully protected.
Measles, a virus more contagious than the flu or COVID, can linger in the air for two hours. It was widespread in the United States before a vaccine was released in 1963. The vaccine was so effective that the disease was considered wiped out by 2000.
But measles is back, thanks to declining vaccination rates over unfounded conspiracy theories that the vaccine is harmful…