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I Fought the Last Measles Epidemic. Can We Stave Off the Next One?

With measles once again sickening large numbers of American children, I can't help recalling 1990, the year I began my career as a pediatrician—and the year a measles epidemic swept across the U.S. There was a nationwide dearth of primary care for children and families at the time, and I began working in a community health center, bringing services to New York City's homeless family shelters aboard mobile medical clinics. The overcrowded shelters were to measles what dry tinder is to wildfires, and the spread of infection ravaged them.