There are virtually no photographs of twenty-first century American children covered with measles. The disease, as well as the sight of it, is something we have banished to the past: the stuff of medical archives and undeveloped foreign countries. Consequently, the photos and stock images that illustrate the news stories about the recent measles outbreak are almost entirely of healthy children—usually white—either crying or sitting patiently while a disembodied adult hand holds an unusually large syringe near their tiny bodies. This image, of course, means a vast array of things to our national population, which has nevertheless found itself split in two broad halves across a new party line: We are either pro-vaccination, or anti.
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