According to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than 500 confirmed individual cases ofmeasleshave been recorded in 20 different states across the nation since the beginning of this year. Since the viral infection was eliminated in the U.S. nearly 19 years ago, the first few months of 2019 saw the second-greatest number of measles cases reported.
Karen D. Liller, professor and director of theActivist Labin theCollege of Public HealthatUniversity of South Florida, and Dr. Mark Roberts, professor and chair of the department of health policy and management at theUniversity of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, phone into the studio to teach us about their new measles outbreak simulator.
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