4 charts reveal just how bad the measles outbreak has gotten

The US is in the midst of what’s shaping up to be the worst measles outbreak of this century .

The January outbreak is now the single largest since the US managed to eradicate the disease's natural spread in the country, in 2000 : Texas has reported 702 cases, New Mexico 67 , Kansas 46 , and Oklahoma 17 — 832 in total, as of May 6 .

This is the kind of precaution that would have been unthinkable, and wholly unnecessary, a decade ago .

But things have changed, and this is the new reality that we are living in, says Vox 's John Sutter .

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