The disease, which is highly contagious but easily prevented by vaccines, is infecting children across the Columbus area.
At least 81 children have been infected in a measles outbreak sweeping across central Ohio and all but five of the children were confirmed to be unvaccinated, the latest preventable outbreak amid concerns that childhood vaccinations waned during the pandemic and an emerging, unwarranted skepticism of vaccines grew....
Some 67% of the patients were between the ages of one and five years old, making them old enough to have received at least one dose of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, according to Columbus Public Health.
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