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By Melba Newsome

A patient with measles, a highly contagious disease, rests at the Amazon Tropical Medicine Foundation in Manaus, Brazil. In the first three months of 2019 the number of measles cases worldwide rose 300 percent compared to the same period in 2018, according to the World Health Organization.

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From CQ Researcher, September 13, 2019