Measles outbreak in Garden State

[RYBICKI, ED]

>         NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A measles outbreak at Rutgers
> University forced that state to declare a state of emergency at the
> school in order to vaccinate 40,000 students, faculty and staff.
>         More than 20 suspected cases ....
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Isn't this a little bit of overkill?  And speaking as someone whose 
infant son has just been inoculated against measles, doesn't anyone 
get vaccinated over there any more?  Is this part of a new trend - 
re-emergence of childhood diseases in sophisticated populations which 
have allowed vaccination schedules to slip because of supposed 
eradication of the disease(s)?  We have endemic polio, measles, TB, 
you name it - so we tend to be a little more paranoid.

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