It was once called a "childhood disease," but there was never anything childish or innocent about it. Measles, also called rubeola, is an infectious virus that can cause severe complications such as blindness and even death. At its height, there were millions of cases of measles in the United States each year, resulting in hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations. Recently, officials at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C., declared that North America and [...]
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