refused to vaccinate their children. outbreaks in this community have been going on for nearly a year now. if that continues to the one-year cut-off point, they take back the elimination card. reporter: and that could cause trouble worldwide. i m concerned it will reduce the motivation of other ministers of health around the world in trying to eliminate measles in their countries because they ll say, gee, if the u.s. couldn t maintain it, why should we work so hard on this? reporter: and that could lead to more deaths. already tens of thousands of people, mostly young children, die of measles each year globally. doctors hope that once the current outbreak ends, the cdc and others will do a better job of combatting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media, lies that encourage parents to ignore science and could cost the united states a great public health achievement. now, new york has about only five weeks to get this outbreak snuffed out and stopped, but the experts we talked t
thinking of the possibility of something constructive. one of the things being floated is he may make an overture of hiv and aids. a new proposem to stop hiv and aids in this country. that would be aiming high. to achieve zero new transmission would be a major public health achievement and it would take a lot to get there. what s your take on that prosect? i certainly hope he s serious. we haurd national emergency for opioids and nothing to show for it. i think that would save a lot of lives domestically and around the world and we d look for real funding to back it up. i sucept he s looking for an applause line which is unfortunate because there are a