Measles Outbreak Hits 25-Year High

Route Fifty: Federal officials confirmed 78 new cases of the measles last week, bringing the nationwide total to 704 amid the largest outbreak of the disease since 1994. And it’s likely not done spreading.

“We expect to see additional cases,” Dr. Nancy Messonier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a phone call Monday. Containing the outbreak, she said, will take “everybody working together to identify people at risk who are unvaccinated and getting them vaccinated. We’d like to get ahead of this thing.”

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