Commentary: Utah should seek to avoid epidemics by removing exemptions to vaccination

Oregon legislators are currently debating a bill that would end non-medical vaccine exemptions and require children to be up to date on all required vaccinations in order to attend public school. The Pacific Northwest is in the middle of a measles outbreak and I fear that my home state (go Utes!) is next.Utah is one of 12 states that have seen a rise in the number of “philosophical-belief” non-medical vaccine exemptions during the last 10 years.During my first year of medical school,