Yup, blame it on the anti-vaxxers. New research says low vaccination rates are "likely to blame" for the recent measles outbreak linked to Disneyland.
It was already speculated that those who refused vaccines helped spur the measles outbreak but a new study published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics supports the theory.
To have an outbreak, researchers said communities are well under the herd immunity threshold needed to prevent the disease from traveling, somewhere between 50 percent and 86 percent instead of the minimum 95 percent typically recommended.
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