Measles on the Rise in U.S.
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"ASHLAND, Ore. - Isabella Parker knows there are two things a big girl needs before she can go to kindergarten: a new backpack and a set of shots so she won’t get sick.
So the brown-eyed 5-year-old doesn’t flinch when nurse Katy Cowan jabs two sharp needles quickly into each arm. Within seconds, Isabella is inoculated against diseases once regarded as the scourges of childhood, including measles, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis and polio.
“I think we’re protecting our children,” explains Vanessa Parker, 29, mother to Isabella and her 8-year-old sister, Haley. “That’s a good thing.”
But when Isabella shows up at Bellview Elementary on Sept. 8, many of her classmates may not share her status. In Ashland, nearly 30 percent of kindergartners have been issued exemptions for some or all of the vaccines required by state law, a rate seven times the rest of the state and about 12 times the rest of the nation."
So the brown-eyed 5-year-old doesn’t flinch when nurse Katy Cowan jabs two sharp needles quickly into each arm. Within seconds, Isabella is inoculated against diseases once regarded as the scourges of childhood, including measles, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis and polio.
“I think we’re protecting our children,” explains Vanessa Parker, 29, mother to Isabella and her 8-year-old sister, Haley. “That’s a good thing.”
But when Isabella shows up at Bellview Elementary on Sept. 8, many of her classmates may not share her status. In Ashland, nearly 30 percent of kindergartners have been issued exemptions for some or all of the vaccines required by state law, a rate seven times the rest of the state and about 12 times the rest of the nation."
