A measles outbreak at Disneyland in the closing days of 2014 has led to reported cases of measles in seventeen states. The Iowa State Department of Health reports that 98% of Iowans are vaccinated against measles, and Guthrie County’s Public Health Administrator Jotham Arber says we’re not quite at that number locally, but we’re close. “Guthrie County is sitting right at around 94%. So that herd immunity that everyone is talking about, that keeps everyone safe is fairly high. It falls within that range that the CDC wants to see, which is around 95% or higher.”

Arber says that there are no known measles cases in Iowa, but with the amount of people traveling in and out of the state, the disease could fairly easily be brought in.