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An Insider's View of the Texas Measles Outbreak

An Insider's View of the Texas Measles Outbreak

Katherine Wells, the public health director in Lubbock, Texas, describes her fight to stop the largest measles outbreak since 2000, despite a chaotic reorganization of federal health agencies.

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