Melanson: Vaccine hesitancy risks more than just a case of measles

Despite medical research’s march forward in understanding disease and the role of vaccines, lately it seems that society has, as a whole, fallen backward. Eradicated diseases, preventable by vaccination, are making a comeback. Reports of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases are popping up across North America. Measles, a highly infectious viral disease, has no specific treatment and the only prevention is immunization. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), m