I doubt there is any sort of conspiracy going on. Â The public for sure has a right to know how affective the vaccine is, but they do not necessarily have the right to know any individuals private medical information, nor, I believe, does the health department have a right to share that information - wouldn't it would fall under HIPPA? Â With such a small number of cases, even not naming names when telling vaccination status is still basically telling everyone who knows who the latest person to come down with Meales is whether or not that individual was vaccinated. Â
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My guess would be that the first family gave permission for the information to be released and later families did not. Â Or problems arose as a result of releasing the information and so the stopped doing it so as not to anger other families or when some lawyer came along and pointed out that it was a privacy violation.Â
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The CDC puts out a report every year on the number of measles cases and how man were vaccinated or unvaccinated.  From a larger report like that, it is far more difficult to determine the vaccination status of any particular individual who was known to have measles, unless it was the same for all, so not so much of a privacy violation.  Whether or not information about individual cases and vaccination is released to the media now, I do expect that the report will come out  eventually revealing that information for the entire year just as it usually does.Â
