The California Department of Public Health is urging everyone who qualifies to get an updated measles vaccine following a a resurgence of cases across the nation and globe.
Vaccination rates for measles have been steadily dropping both nationally and worldwide, which health officials point to as a reason more cases are being reported for a disease that had largely vanished.
“It is definitely an ‘uh-oh’ moment, not because is measles is still transmissible, which it is, but because it can cause a lot of unnecessary suffering,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert with the University of California San Francisco…