California measles outbreak fueled by parents who failed to vaccinate children – study

Study in peer-reviewed journal finds ‘substandard vaccination compliance likely to blame’ as 145 measles cases linked to Disneyland outbreak confirmed by CDC

The rapid spread of measles cases in the US after an infected person visited in Disneyland in December was largely fueled by parents who refused to properly vaccinate their children, a new study published this week has found.

Although the person who started the outbreak has not yet been identified, officials suspect it began with an infected person from abroad who visited the Disneyland theme park in southern California in mid- to late December. Since then, there have been 145 confirmed measles cases in seven states and three countries linked to the Disneyland outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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