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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Most measles cases this year linked to unvaccinated individuals.

In the New York Times (10/26, Anderson) "Motherlode" blog, Jenny Anderson writes, "In a typical year, the Centers for Disease Control sees 60 to 70 cases of measles," but "as of Oct. 14, it had tracked 214 cases - the worst figure in 15 years." Anderson writes, "And here's the part that kills me: in 86 percent of those cases, the person with the disease had not been vaccinated or the vaccination status was unknown."

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