Despite hyperventilated reporting on 704 cases measles, there has been silence over this year’s flu season that already hospitalized 630,000 and killed 59,500 Americans.    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that from January 1 through April 26 there was a total of 704 confirmed cases of measles and no deaths across 22 states. At the current pace, 2019 is on track for 2,112 measles cases, versus 372 in 2018.  Measles cases date back to at least 9th-century Persia. American outbreaks from 1912 to 1921 infected about 3-4 million and killed about 6,000 each year. Widespread  mandatory U.S. vaccinations beginning in the 1960s was thought to have eliminated the measles by 2000, but foreign visitors since 2010 have reintroduced the disease.  With President Trump backing U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar mounting a concerted effort to convince U.S. parents to vaccinate their children, the CDC hopes to again...(Read Full Post)