Thank Anti-Vaxxers For The Measles
Cancer surgeon Orac blogs at Respectful Insolence about the uptick in measles cases, with last year being the worst year for measles in the last 15 years, with 222 cases cropping up:

Antivaccinationists will frequently ask why they should vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine when measles is currently uncommon in the U.S. Of course, the primary reason that measles is so uncommon in the U.S. is because over the last few decades we have been able to maintain a generally high level of vaccine coverage. I would remind them that the U.K. had also achieved measles elimination back in the 1990s. Then Andrew Wakefield came along. With the willing help of sensationalistic British tabloids, he spread the myth that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Within less than a decade, measles came roaring back in the U.K.. It's now endemic again in the U.K., thanks to plummeting MMR uptake rates. They'll also ask why it matters to those whose children are vaccinated if they don't vaccinate their kids. It's true that vaccination against measles is very good, but it's not 100% effective. That means that, because measles is such a contagious disease, even a certain percentage of the vaccinated are put at risk by the unvaccinated. Then there are children too young to be vaccinated or who have a medical condition that precludes vaccination. They rely on herd immunity for protection.

Another thing that antivaccine zealots frequently forget is that, like it or not, we live in a global society with a highly mobile population. A highly infectious disease like measles is only a plane ride away, and, in fact, that's a common way that outbreaks in the U.S. get started. The oceans that we used to look to to isolate us from the rest of the world are no longer any protection against infectious diseases, and, unfortunately, Europe and other areas where antivaccinationists have succeeded in frightening parents to refuse vaccination for their children are now helping to spread the disease globally, including to the U.S. Is Europe a warning for the U.S. regarding measles? It could be. I worry that the U.S. is on the same path as the U.K. and Europe, just five to ten years behind them. If we allow vaccination rates to fall too much, in 2020 it's not too far-fetched to imagine 30,000 cases a year in North America.

So, once again in light of this sort of news, I have to repeat a sentiment I've repeated a few times in the past: Rejoice, Jenny McCarthy, J.B. Handley, Jake Crosby, Kim Stagliano, Dan Olmsted, Barbara Loe Fisher, Dr. Jay Gordon, Dr. Bob Sears, and all the other antivaccine activists (or their willing dupes who oh-so-piously claim they are really and truly "not antivaccine") spreading misinformation, pseudoscience, and fear about vaccines! You appear to be winning. You're succeeding in casting doubt on the safety of vaccines to the point that it's causing real problems for our public health system every time an unvaccinated person travels.