dr. vivek murthy is making history. he is the first surgeon general of indian dissent. e over vaccinations is intensifying among parents and politicians. dr. murthy joins us now from washington. it is his first television interview. >> good morning charlie. it's a pleasure to be with you and norah and gayle. >> it's good to have you. tell us how concerned you are about the concern of spread of measles. >> i'm very concerned, charlie, about the spread of measles and this particular outbreak we're having. as you know, we eliminated measles in the year 2000 in the united states. that was a very important time. but we receive a resurgence of measles in the united states. the good news about this is we know how to eliminate measles, and at the heart of that strategy is getting vaccinated. >> mr. surgeon general, you don't see an outbreak where they have mandatory vaccinations. you see the largest ones where they have personal health exemptions or religious exemptions. do we need to rethink those? >> this has been a concern for people including myself. the key point i want to

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dr. vivek murthy addressed the growing outbreak with our chief medical correspondent, dr.ow, the number of people who have the infection, the number of states that have been involved. how do you quantify how bad this is from a public health standpoint? i mean are we on the precipice of this potentially getting much much worse? given how contagious this is? >> well measles is highly contagious in fact if not the most contagious virus you know of. if your are exposed to measles and you're not vaccinated against it you have a 99% chance of getting it. the flip side is if you are vaccinated your chance of getting it is only about, much much lower. you get a 97% protection rate if you get both doses of the vaccine. so that's very good. but i think right now we are at a critical tipping point. where you know if we need to closely monitor the number of cases we have. we need to continue to do contact tracing. >> dr. sanjay gupta joins us now from atlanta. it's interesting, sanjay getting to see the two of you sit down together his first major tv interview. he is one, he is the yo