Yvonne “Bonnie” A. Maldonado, MD, called the two measles-related deaths announced this week in Pennsylvania “the canary in the coalmine.” “We should be at the point where vaccine-preventable diseases and deaths should not be occurring,” Maldonado, the Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine, told Healio.

Two people have died in a growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania.The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced the deaths Tuesday morning, noting that they are the first…

The deaths in Pennsylvania are the state’s first from the disease in 35 years. Two weeks ago, Donald Trump claimed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could be “quite lethal”.