Medical Anthropologist Explores 'Vaccine Hesitancy'
Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they're heard, too.
Distrust of vaccines may be almost as contagious as measles, according to medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo.
More than 100 people have been infected with measles this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Over 50 of those cases have occurred in southwest Washington state and northwest Oregon in an outbreak that led Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency on Jan. 25.
Some public health officials blame the surge of cases on low vaccination
