Usually, states will see one or two cases in a year, and what's concerning is, as of today, we'll be at 48 cases of measles, the most worrisome thing is, it's a completely unnecessary outbreak. Kristen Ehresmann More Quotes by Kristen Ehresmann More Quotes From Kristen Ehresmann Measles finds unvaccinated people, and this outbreak has two key points, one is the effect of targeted misinformation on a vulnerable community, but the other is that if you're not vaccinated, you are vulnerable. Kristen Ehresmann us-news Measles is a serious disease. You can have pneumonia and dehydration ... and people do die from measles, so we take it very seriously, our goal for measles control is to protect all the individuals in the state, but for some people, they can't be vaccinated because of health conditions. Kristen Ehresmann us-news So the cases that we see are cases that are imported or brought in from other countries, at this point, you just don't know when it's going to happen. Kristen Ehresmann us-news We shouldn't be spending hundreds of thousands of public health dollars to battle an outbreak that doesn't need to be, we collectively can prevent these things from happening by vaccinating. Kristen Ehresmann us-news I want to be very clear that this outbreak has nothing to do with being Somali. It's just the sheer fact of being unvaccinated. Kristen Ehresmann us-news The most worrisome thing is, it's a completely unnecessary outbreak. Kristen Ehresmann us-news At that point, the anti-vaccine groups just really started targeting the community. Kristen Ehresmann us-news
