High rates of non-vaccinated children throughout the US have reached critical numbers of vulnerable individuals, resulting in perfect conditions for a wildfire storm of measles infections, an easily preventable yet highly contagious disease. More than 120 confirmed cases of measles have been reported in 17 states and the District of Columbia in the most recent outbreak that started in December 2014 when at least 40 people who visited or worked at the California Disneyland theme park contracted measles.
