BOOSTER SHOTS The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health

In a conversational but serious manner, pediatrician and infectious disease specialist Adam Ratner explains that effective measles vaccines have existed for more than 60 years. Sadly, the very success of this technology has resulted in a kind of collective amnesia about the risks of measles. Ratner doesn't sound like he's going to give up his medical career to narrate audiobooks, but he does an entertaining and persuasive job of making his case for science-based public health and the unequal effects of poverty on the outcomes of infectious disease outbreaks. He expresses frustration at the lingering misleading and even outright false claims that linked MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) with autism at the same time that he recognizes the importance of being respectful to vaccine-hesitant parents. A.B. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2025]