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A measles mystery: how could the vaccine prevent deaths from other diseases too?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageMeasles immunization campaign poster display at the Eradicate Measles Exhibit in 1972.CDC/ Don Lovell via Public Health Image Library

If infectious diseases were a monarchy, measles might be king. Not only does measles reign among the most contagious diseases known to man – likely to infect any non-vaccinated individual who stands in the same...

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