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Topic: Measles outbreak 2019

A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

Family donates millions to anti-vax orgs

Brad Reed - Alternet
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

839 measles cases as US outbreak grows

Shira Tarlo
In this April 14, 1947 file photo, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, where doctors are inoculating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. (AP Photo)

Measles flares beyond 700 cases

Lucian K. Truscott IV
A sign explaining the local state of emergency because of a measles outbreak at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., March 27, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

GOP moves toward anti-vaxxer stance

Igor Derysh
FILE - In this file photo daetd Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, a medical worker sprays people being discharged from the Island Clinic Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. Bulldozers on Wednesday April. 5, 2017 cleared the remains of a once busy Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, as health care workers, officials and some who were treated there gathered to mark the center's last day and official decommissioning. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, FILE) (AP)

Predicting the next outbreak

C. Brandon Ogbunu, Randall Harp, Samuel V. Scarpino - The Conversation
Darla and Bill Shine (Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

Debunking Darla Shine's anti-vaxx claims

Shira Tarlo
(Getty/bernie_photo)

Coming of age unvaccinated

Jane Roberts - Undark
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