Brittany Kmush

“It’s not just a cold for a lot of people. It can lead to phenomena and in rare cases encephalitis and death,”

Brittany Kmush · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-14

Brittany Kmush emphasized the severity and dangerous complications that can arise from measles infections.

“We were able to get them vaccinated and do the quarantine and isolation,”

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Brittany Kmush recalled how public health measures prevented the loss of elimination status in 2019.

“It could be more impactful than a lot of Americans think about since we have had measles elimination status for so long,”

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Brittany Kmush noted the significant impact that losing measles elimination status could have on the United States.

“It could affect U.S. citizens’ ability to travel to specific countries if they don’t want the risk of measles getting introduced to their country. It could affect other people’s ability to come visit the U.S. Other countries might require proof of measles vaccination before they can reenter their home country,”

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Brittany Kmush detailed potential travel and entry restrictions if the U.S. loses elimination status.

“The policies and some of the vaccine hesitancy and skepticism rhetoric is definitely dangerous and going to make people who are unsure about vaccines even more unsure, when they really shouldn’t be.”

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Brittany Kmush warned that skeptical rhetoric around vaccines causes unnecessary doubt among the public.

“Unfortunately, measles vaccination rates are even lower now than they were in 2019 and 99% of the cases that have been reported in this outbreak are either not vaccinated or have unknown vaccination status.”

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Brittany Kmush noted that current vaccination rates are lower and most infected individuals are unvaccinated.

“I am definitely alarmed,”

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Brittany Kmush expressed alarm over the current measles situation compared to 2019.

“And so we really need everyone who is eligible to get the vaccine.”

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Brittany Kmush urged everyone eligible to receive the measles vaccine.

“You can do quarantine, isolation, similar to the idea with COVID, but measles is a lot more contagious than COVID,”

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Brittany Kmush highlighted the high contagiousness of measles compared to COVID-19.

“I think certain administrators and their views on vaccines have been fueling some of this vaccine hesitancy and people’s reluctance to receive a vaccine that’s been proven safe and effective for decades,”

Brittany Kmush · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-14

Brittany Kmush criticized certain administrators for fueling vaccine hesitancy.