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New York county, declaring emergency over measles, seeks to ban unvaccinated from public places

By Helen Branswell for STAT Caught in the grips of a persistent and long-running measles outbreak, a New York county on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of announcing it would ban children who have not been vaccinated against the disease from enclosed public places as part of a 30-day state of emergency. Schools, houses of…

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