I got a bit of bad news for you, America. The measles is back, reaching a 33-year record high. At least 1,288 cases of the measles have been confirmed across 39 states this year. That's according to the CDC. The bulk of the cases stem from a massive outbreak in West Texas from which two children have died. Now, to put this in perspective, scientists declared measles to have been eliminated in the US in the year 2000. Now what that means is that in the year 2000 no cases of measles infection originated withi ...