article_snippet.sent: Health experts in the US have warned the US is in danger of being gripped by a measles pandemic because a growing number of people are not getting vaccinated against pandemic and are being exposed to the rest of the populationthe population.
article_snippet.sent: pandemic has swept several states in America and California and officials have warned there could be a danger of reversing the eradication of measles 15 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this year, Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was concerned about the possibility of a large measles outbreak in America.
article_snippet.sent: Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there was concern over the growing number of people choosing not to have people choosing not to have their injections to prevent the highly infectious disease injections to prevent the highly infectious disease and has called for more people to be vaccinated .
article_snippet.sent: In February around 100 people were diagnosed with the measles virus across 15 states. 
article_snippet.sent: Last month officials in California confirmed 119 people had been diagnosed with Measles after visiting Disneyland in Anaheim.
article_snippet.sent: a large measles outbreak in America is believed to have started when an overseas tourist with Measles visited the theme park.
article_snippet.sent: American officials are calling for children to be vaccinated against Measles in order to prevent a pandemic .
article_snippet.sent: Measles is a highly infectious disease that is characterised by a rash, runny nose and fever.
article_snippet.sent: Children are routinely protected against Measles through the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine but some parents choose not to allow some parents to have the jab because some parents personally disagree with the jab or due to problems with some parents offspring's immune system.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control said the spread of measles could increase because of a growing number of people who have not been vaccinated being exposed to the population .
article_snippet.sent: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in an infected person's nose and throat mucus and spreads through coughing and sneezing.
article_snippet.sent: The CDCP warned: Measles virus can live for up to two hours on a surface or in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. '
article_snippet.sent: Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes and a red rash that usually first appears on the face and spreads to the rest of the body.
article_snippet.sent: The CDPH warned medics to ask patients if medics have either travelled to areas with a measles problem or locations domestically with a large number of foreign tourists from infected areas.
article_snippet.sent: The issue of vaccination against measles is a historically controversial one.
highlights_snippet.sent: Officials decided to act after spread of the measles virus in America .
  