Blackburn: Measles Is ‘Far Too Serious an Issue To Be Treated as a Political Football’

‘People still die from Measles’

"[Reads newspapers headlines: 'Vaccine politics injected into 2016;' Measles outbreak infects politics in debate.'] Now, this is far too serious an issue to be treated as a political football. People still die from Measles and the CDC web site tells us it was eliminated from the U.S. in 2000. But yet, we're seeing this outbreak. And I have to tell you, it is of tremendous concern to me. As a mother and a grandmother, I am hearing so much about this from my constituents and they want to know some answers. They want to know how you all are addressing this. I will tell you, when I hear about counties in California that have lower immunization rates than the Sudan and Chad, this is something that is of concern to me. I'm a Rotarian. We've invested decades into eliminating and whipping out Polio and then to hear this about the U.S., I'm concerned."

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