As cases of vaccine-preventable diseases, notably measles and pertussis, continue to rise in the United States, several experts gave Medscape Medical News a big-picture perspective of long-term implications and challenges for clinicians. [Medscape]

What might the current low vaccination rates and lack of vaccination support from the current administration mean for short- and long-term public health? 

The increase in vaccine-preventable illnesses and deaths in the United States seen in recent years is only going to get worse, with long-term effects on public health, said Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, in an interview. 

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