In the first two months of this year, there have been more than a thousand confirmed measles cases across the United States. >> Yeah, that's nearly half the amount of cases we had in all of last year, with 94% of people infected being unvaccinated. According to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health, if measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next 5 years, the financial cost to the US could reach $1.5% billion a year.Joining us now is NBC News medical reporter Erica E ...

And we are watching yet another fast growing measles outbreak here in the United States. This one is spreading across two counties along the Arizona Utah border. Officials there say more than 120 people have contracted the highly contagious virus since August.That makes it the second largest cluster of cases in the country so far this year. It comes amid NBC News data showing a decline in vaccination rates in 77% of US counties since 2019. NBC's medical reporter Erica Edwards is in Colorado City, Arizona.of ...