Written by: Joe Chow, MD, Adult Medical Director, AccessNurse Measles? Pull out your medical textbooks. Medical textbooks- that’s how long it’s been since we’ve seen a significant outbreak of measles dating back to the late 1980s. After the recommendation of a second dose of MMR, measles was declared “eliminated” from the [...]

The CDC reports high levels of flu throughout most of the US, with flu A (H1N1 and H3N2) as the predominant strains circulating. The CDC provides a nice time-lapse map of how quickly the flu has expanded during December here. This timing is not unexpected given the prior respiratory seasons and [...]