Mel...you are my age....didn't you have measles/mumps and chickenpox when you were young? I sure did.

This "epidemic" is not huge. The vaccine failures for kids who are vaccinated range from 5-15%.

Basically it is these who get measles. Also viruses have "strains" and if this measles is a new strain, who knows?

There is great controversy about MMR vaccines. In Britain, there are very
militant parents there, who have videos of their children before the vaccine and right after the vaccine where the autism develops!

When I was pregnant, my doctor ran titres on my blood (I had 4 pages of blood work) showing immunity to rubella.

You can have titres run...to see if you are immune.

Also there is some thought that having the actual disease gives a "better" immunity than getting vaccines.

Also you need more information... the word "epidemic" can have various meanings that may be very different from each other.