Measles cases across the US have soared to a 35-year high with two fatalities from the illness announced this summer. This, as the Trump administration has reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccines.

Meanwhile, a record-breaking Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is claiming thousands of lives. #ebola #measles #vaccine #disease #epidemic #heat

Host: Anand Naidoo

Guests:
Yaneer Bar-Yam is President of the New England Complex Systems Institute.
Manenji Mangundu is Oxfam's Country Director for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dr. Walter A. Orenstein is Professor Emeritus at Emory University's School of Medicine and the former Director of the United States Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control.