You’ve probably seen measles popping up in your news feed lately — hopefully that’s the only place you’re seeing it — because cases have been on the rise. More than 1,300 measles cases have been reported so far this year — the most recorded since the disease was officially eliminated from the United States 25 years ago. (Eliminated meaning there was no continuous spread of disease within the country for a year and any new cases were coming from people who got it abroad.) Thanks to America’s strong vaccination program, most of us got the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine as a kid and hav...
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