In this case it seems unlikely, unless the patient is illegal. It would appear he/she picked this up in India.
Perhaps. But, I am encountering far too many native born Americans of late with an anti-vaccine mentality, based upon a number of irrational fears such as, the people catch the flu from the flu vaccine, the MMR vaccine causes autism, AIDS orinally came from the small-pox vaccine, vaccines are nothing but a government scam to pump the pharmacutical industrty, etc. I have heard and read these concerns from otherwise intelligent, conservative people, crunchy liberal extremists, Hollyweird celebs, soccermoms, and even Freepers, many of whom are too young to have experieced the death and suffering that these diseases caused before they became easily preventable through wide-spread vaccination. That's why many of these killer diseases are re-emerging.
I can just see the puns now: Rubeola = Rube Ebola
...if you bookend these two graphs, the problem becomes apparent.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/graph-us-measles-cases
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
And we all know how factual the past decade's illegal immigration numbers are...
...the 2011-2014 column should be off the chart (along with the past decade).
Great! I live in Mooresville.
And why is the public information officer for Mecklenburg county involved?
Mooresville is in Iredell County and we have a County Health Dept.
I would suggest the hordes moving there from Maryland are the culprits.
Well back in my day, we got everything. Mumps, measles, chicken pox, scarlet fever and whooping cough. And we liked it.