Opinion: How physicians should talk to parents of unvaccinated children who have contracted measles

STAT March 8, 2025
Adam Ratner

As a doctor working in the 2018-2019 New York measles outbreak, I learned some things

The ongoing measles outbreak in west Texas and a neighboring county in New Mexico has grown to more than 200 cases, concentrated in unvaccinated children. Twenty-three people have required hospitalization, and, tragically, a previously healthy, unvaccinated 6-year-old has died of the disease. An adult with measles in neighboring Lea County, New Mexico, has also died.

Measles is the most contagious disease...

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