Pakistan jails 471 parents who refused to give polio vaccine to children–The Guardian Parents in north-west of country were imprisoned under government orders on charges of endangering public security A health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photograph: Mohammad Sajjad/AP Endemic polio was eliminated in the US by 1980.  Nearly…

This graph comes from the Washington Post.  Before 1993 there were many US measles cases, mainly due to waning of vaccine-induced immunity. Then an additional MMR dose was added to the vaccine schedule in the US, and measles immunity improved. There is no endemic measles in the US, helped by the fact there is no…