Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak has hit a sobering milestone, surpassing 1,000 cases — the first U.S. outbreak to do so in 35 years. The virus moved through communities where many children and adults have gone years without the two doses of measles vaccine.

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