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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on February 20th, 2019. I'm Steve Murski. Headline, the Guardian newspaper February 12th,

Measles outbreak in Philippines, kills 70 with vaccine fearmongering blamed. Headlines CBS News, February 10th.

Number of people with measles tripled in Europe in 2018, World Health Organization says.

In the article, this sentence, more than 82,000 people in Europe contracted the virus, which killed 72 people.

And again from CBS News reporting from Washington State, this headline, February 8th. Hundreds rally to preserve right

not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak. The rally is a response to a bill that would take

away the state's provision to allow parents to opt out of measles vaccines for kids for, quote,

philosophical reasons, end quote. The good news there is that in the region where the outbreak has occurred,

vaccine rates rose some 500%.

Now, before these headlines ran,

there were other cases of outbreaks traced to unvaccinated kids.

So I called Tara Smith.

She's an epidemiologist at Ken State University's College of Public

Health. In 2017, she published an article in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases titled

Vaccine Rejection and Hesidency, a review and Call to Action. We spoke by phone.

Music a review and call to action. We spoke by phone. Why did you feel compelled to do this research and write this paper?

So as part of my, I was a distinguished lecture for the American Society for Microbiology.

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