‘Measles is only a plane flight away’: As outbreak surges, experts warn against global health funding cuts

Experts say the level of undervaccination around the globe can have stark effects at home. “For the United States, measles is only a plane flight away,” said David Higgins, a pediatrician at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “If an American who is unvaccinated goes and travels … anywhere in the world where measles has increased, they [could] bring it back. … And I think we underappreciate, here in the United States, the degree of measles vaccine disruption around the world.”