The national measles outbreak hasn’t affected Utah yet, but it almost certainly will, health department officials warned Thursday.
“We think we will probably be experiencing it here in Utah soon,” said Joseph Miner, executive director of the Utah Department of Health. “All of us must choose to immunize. Not just to protect our own children, but also, even more importantly, to protect infants and children of others — our friends and neighbors who are too young to be immunized, or have lost their immunity due to other diseases.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, from Jan.