2008 measles outbreak in California

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The 2008 measles outbreak in California refers to a small outbreak of measles in San Diego, California in early 2008.

The outbreak is traced to an unvaccinated 7-year-old child who went on a family trip to Europe.^[1]^[2] The CDC refers to this as an "import-associated outbreak".^[1]

The final diagnosis included eleven additional cases of measles in unvaccinated children in San Diego.^[1] All of the confirmed patients were not vaccinated because they were younger than 1, the minimum age for measles inoculation, or because their parents declined to have them vaccinated.^[3] The typical vaccine would be the MMR vaccine.

The incident drew attention to the controversy over vaccination. This was San Diego County's first measles outbreak since 1991.^[3]