The Retweet: GlobalGrind Discusses How The Measles Became A First World Problem

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Children are coming down with the measles at an alarming rate — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said those numbers rose 19 percent in the past week, to 121 people in 17 states. And given that the highly contagious disease was eradicated in the early 2000s in the nation, those are big numbers.
Take it from our news and politics editor, Christina Coleman, who discusses why vaccinations matter (even if you don’t trust the government), how this is now a first world problem, and how anti-vaxxers could changing the medical landscape of America in GlobalGrind’s newest web series, The Retweet.

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