As an epidemiologist, what the author doesn't get is that we have been empathetic. We have been patient. We have explained, using everything from complex math to simple metaphor how vaccination works to protect populations. We have spent millions of dollars and person-hours of valuable research time chasing down the ghosts of anti-vaxx fantasy to make sure there's nothing to them. We have let VAERS become irrevocably…
Wakefield was one of your own and VAERS takes reports from the medical community. Vaccine rates are pretty high. If they're effective then they should be effective for the 90%+ people taking them. Meanwhile Ebola with >50% mortality is raging and the medical community is up in arms over measles.
Some vaccines are very effective at the individual level. Others are not, and so the safety of any individual is reliant on herd immunity. So when you say "they should be effective", I don't know if you mean to prevent an individual's illness or to prevent an outbreak. Either way, vaccines are not just intended to be effective for the individual -- they're intended to protect an entire society.
As far as Ebola: the medical community is certainly up in arms over that, as well. It's a huge crisis, and millions are being poured into its treatment and prevention.
The problem with Ebola is that there's a massive cultural barrier. Many of the most at-risk people are afraid of vaccines, and some of them totally misunderstand how Ebola is spread. Those two situations are getting better, but it's much harder of a situation to solve.
The reason you're reading so much about measles is that it's affecting a wealthy, educated country, and it's directly caused by misinformation from the "anti-vaxxer" movement. It's alarming because it's a backslide, and we know it's preventable because we did such a good job preventing it for so long.