Nearly 1,650 cases of measles in 42 states have been confirmed this year in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the largest annual number in 34 years. This includes a fresh outbreak of over a hundred people that began in late summer in Arizona and Utah. Public health experts such as Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, suspect the actual total could be higher.
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