What Measles Costs

Some numbers on what a small measles outbreak -- 14 confirmed cases and 363 suspected cases -- costs:

the Arizona Department of Health had to track down and interview 8,321 people; seven Tucson hospitals had to furlough staff members for a combined 15,120 work-hours; and two hospitals where patients were admitted spent $799,136 to contain the disease.

The people who refuse to vaccinate their children and themselves cost the rest of us millions, quite above the risk of death.