NBC晚间新闻 美国爆发麻疹疫情（在线收听）

Measles now a public health emergency, with a surge of those infected across the country. The CDC confirming 101 cases since January first. The epicenter of the outbreak, Washington State, with more than 50 cases. Most in Clark County, which has the lowest vaccination rates. About a quarter of kindergartners there aren't immunized. I do have concerns. We will see more numbers. It can get exponentially worse. The threat so severe, some hospitals arming each entrance with security guards to screen visitors for symptoms of the virus and state lawmakers considering a bill that would prevent parents from citing personal reasons for not vaccinating their kids.

18 year old Ethan Linder Berger lives in Ohio, a state that allowed his mom to opt out of vaccinating when he was a kid. Today he says he's fact-checked his mom's claims. Her claims were largely debunked by the Simon scientific community that vaccines cause autism, that they caused brain damage. Now as an adult, Linda Berger has chosen to get fully vaccinated on his own as health officials scrambled to contain a disease eliminated in the U.S. nearly two decades ago.

麻疹疫情现在是一个突发公共卫生事件。全国范围内感染人数激增。据美国疾病控制中心称，自从1月1日以来，已报告有101例麻疹患者。疫情爆发的中心位于华盛顿州，那里已报告有50例麻疹患者。大多数疫情发生在克拉克县，那里的疫苗接种率最低。大约有四分之一的幼儿园儿童没有接种疫苗。我确实担心这个情况。会有更多的人感染麻疹。疫情会成倍地变得更糟。这次的威胁非常严重，一些医院在每个入口都配备了保安，以检查访客是否出现病毒症状，而且，国会正考虑通过一项法案，以阻止父母因个人原因不给孩子接种疫苗。18岁的伊桑·林德·伯杰住在俄亥俄州，在他小的时候，该州允许他的母亲选择不给他接种疫苗。今天他说他已经核实了他妈妈的说法。当时她的想法在很大程度上被科学界消除，当时科学界有疫苗会导致自闭症，会导致大脑损伤的观点。如今已是成年人的琳达·伯杰选择完全接种疫苗，而美国卫生官员正在努力遏制一种近20年前在美国被消灭的疾病。