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Nearly 100 New Measles Cases Reported Last Week: CDC

GOING VIRAL

Bringing this year’s total to 465—already the second-highest since the disease was eradicated in 2000.

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Nearly 100 measles cases were reported in the last week alone, according to CDC figures cited Monday by USA Today. The CDC reported that the number of cases jumped from 387 to 465 in the first week of April, and that the disease has spread to 19 states.

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