What You Need to Know About Measles

Here’s what the measles comeback means for you

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
7 min readFeb 5, 2020

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AAfter 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.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.