Startling charts reveal how infectious disease could engulf America

America is if vaccine rates continue to fall at their current pace, scientists warn.

Striking graphs show there could be more than 11.1 million infections over the next 25 years - 444,000 per year - and roughly 30,000 deaths if vaccination coverage dropped 10 percent.

Research from Stanford University estimates that just a five percent decline in coverage with the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) would lead to an estimated 5.7 million measles cases and at least 2,500 deaths over the next 25 years.

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