Hundreds of people in the US state of South Carolina have been quarantined over a measles outbreak.
The vaccine-preventable virus has been considered eliminated in the US since 2000, but the country is now at risk of losing that status. Outbreaks are also growing along the Utah-Arizona border, and the national case count is nearly 2,000.
Globally, it’s been a good year for vaccine science; in the US, though, “deep institutional skepticism” of vaccination has taken hold in Washington, the Financial Times editorial board wrote: Health leaders now consider vaccines “a matter of choice to be discussed with doctors,” but the consequences of such an approach are dire.
