Across the United States, a Reuters-Ipsos poll has captured what public health officials feared most: a measles vaccine trust deficit reaching historic lows, arriving precisely as children return to classrooms and the conditions for contagion grow most favorable. The measles vaccine stands among medicine's most durable achievements — it erased a disease that once blinded, deafened, and killed Americans by the hundreds — yet that legacy is now contested by forces of misinformation, political division, and generational distance from the disease itself. What is at stake is not merely a statistic
US measles vaccine trust hits historic low as health officials warn of crisis risk
Potential public health risk to vulnerable populations including seniors and children if vaccination rates decline further.