The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen US states
and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames …

Background Although a large majority of parents vaccinate their children, vaccine hesitancy
has become more widespread. It is not well understood how this culture of vaccine hesitancy …

The recent Disneyland measles outbreak brought national attention to a growing problem:
vaccine refusal—herd immunity is no longer a reality in many communities. Only 70% of …

Childhood vaccination resistance has given rise to outbreaks of diseases, which had been
virtually eliminated in the developed world. A parent's decision to forego vaccination for their …

Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 as in
2013. The reemergence of measles has been linked to a dangerous trend: parents refusing …

Vaccine hesitancy reflects concerns about the decision to vaccinate oneself or one's
children. There is a broad range of factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy, including the …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess respondents' self-reported choices for
vaccinating their young children; knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KABs) about vaccination; …

Vaccines are some of if not the most successful public health endeavors ever put into
practice. Countless lives have been saved and the occurrences of vaccine preventable …

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared endemic measles
eliminated in 2000, with rubella and congenital rubella syndrome eliminated in 2004. 1 …

OBJECTIVES. The goals were (1) to obtain national estimates of the proportions of parents
with indicators of vaccine doubt,(2) to identify factors associated with those parents …