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Utah’s measles outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.

Since measles was deemed eliminated in the US a quarter century ago, public health workers have extinguished sporadic outbreaks in close-knit, under-vaccinated communities. www.wired.com/story/anguis...

Early this year, the outbreak in Utah hit “a point where you no longer have control over it,” said state epidemiologist Leisha Nolen. By March, measles had been detected in every health jurisdiction in the state and in northern Arizona. www.wired.com/story/anguis...

More than 950 people have tested positive in the two states since the outbreak began in August, but many people with measles haven’t been tested. www.wired.com/story/anguis...

“This train is going in the wrong direction,” says one Utah pediatrician. This story was published in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org. Read it in full at the link below.