In the paper that appeared last week, we wish to correct the list of countries travel from which presents the greatest risk to the U.S. in 2019. The following correction will appear in The Lancet Infectious Diseases: The list of countries that pose the highest risk of measles to the USA was been corrected to …
Measles and Austin: A Commentary
A commentary based on my earlier post has appeared in the Austin American Statesman.
Media Response to Travel and Measles Risk
Note: The media office at Johns Hopkins has collected the media sites covering our work--see the Excel File they have produced. I will stop updating this page. Almost all the sources below are found in their list but with some very notable exception, for instance, the New York Times! Our paper on travel-induced risk for …
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Measles Resurgence in the USA: How International Travel Compounds Vaccine Resistance
Lauren Gardner (now at Johns Hopkins University) and I, along with Aleksa Zlojutro (UNSW Sydney) and Kamran Khan (University of Toronto) have just published this paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. It is a spatial risk analysis for measles in the United States. Our point of departure was the spatial analysis of the antivaccine movement in …
Preventing Measles in Austin
Measles has returned to the United States with a vengeance even though it was officially eliminated in 2000. Since that date, until 2014, occasional outbreaks had occurred because of importation of the virus from remaining measles-prone areas of the world. In 2014, there were 667 cases. This year, by the end of April, the case …
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