What You Need to Know About Measles
Here’s what the measles comeback means for you
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7 min readFeb 5, 2020
After months of lab tests, patient interviews, and emergency vaccinations, public health officials in Clark County, Washington, announced that the local measles outbreak was finally over. It was late April 2019 and 71 people — nearly all of them children — had contracted measles since the start of the year.