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Nasty Blast from the Past // Measles is baaaack

JL;DR SUMMARY Avi Shafran highlights the return of measles, once a routine childhood illness before vaccines nearly eradicated it, now resurging due to declining vaccination rates. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Public HealthRobert F. Kennedy Jr.Vaccine HesitancyVaccinationInfectious DiseasesHerd ImmunityChildhood IllnessMeaslesSspeImmunity Amnesia

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Texas, United States
"What has thrust measles into the medias spotlight these days are the more than 300 cases (at this writing) of the disease that have appeared in western Texas."
California, United States
"A review of measles cases in California found that, between 1988 and 1991, SSPE cases occurred as frequently as 1 in every 1,367 cases in unvaccinated children under age five."
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"We didnt know, when I was a child, that hundreds of children died from measles each year in the US."
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