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    Commentary: Measles is making a comeback. Should we be concerned?

    by Sheldon H. Jacobson and Dr. Janet A. Jokela, Chicago Tribune Mar 13, 2024 3 minutes
    Franmaris Luna, 9, of Venezuela, cries on the arm of her mother, Tibisay Luna, while waiting for a bus with her sister Frayeli, 11, outside a migrant shelter on Chicago's Lower West Side on March 8, 2024. Franmaris was afraid of contracting measles after a child staying at the shelter developed a confirmed case that Chicago public health officials announced Friday.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported an uptick in the number of measles cases around the nation since early December. If the pace of infections continues to follow this trajectory, 2024’s total will top the surge reported in 2014 (667 cases), or even the 1,274 cases reported in 2019. Should we be concerned?

    One perception among some people is that measles is just another innocuous infectious disease that children contract, characterized by fever and a rash. The actual

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