Jim Goodson, CDCIt hasn’t quite been two decades since the United States reached a remarkable milestone in human’s age-old battle against deadly infectious disease: measles had officially been eliminated from the nation. What Is Disease Elimination? “The ongoing outbreaks in close-knit communities and increased global measles activity is putting the US at risk for losing its elimination status,” Wired quoted her saying. Then do we lose our elimination status? Do we have to wear America’s cone of shame because we’re the country that lost our elimination status?”Offit didn’t hesitate: “I think we’ve lost our elimination status,” he responded.

Source: Forbes May 31, 2019 23:29 UTC