Why this matters: An April JAMA study finds falling U.S. vaccination rates will lead to measles, a once-vanquished, preventable virus, reemerging as an endemic disease within a generation. The study projects more than 50 million cases of measles, a virus with a 0.3 percent mortality rate, in the next quarter century.
The chart below shows the percentage of each group that said that the statements listed below were either “probably true” or “definitely true.”
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