“It’s kind of like if you were a firefighter trying to put out a house fire, & somebody is standing on the hose trying to have a philosophical debate with you about whether water is good or not,” he said.

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The #virus has jumped between under-vaccinated groups of people across the state. Dr. Leisha Nolen, the #Utah state epidemiologist, said that #measles cases had emerged in 22 of the state’s 29 counties. Most of the counties that have been spared have very small populations, she added.

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…For more than a year, large #measles #outbreaks have popped up all over the #US, in places including #Texas & #SouthCarolina. But unlike those outbreaks & many of others over the last 2 decades—which have often had ties to insular religious communities, like Mennonite, Amish & ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups—the virus appears to be spreading through the broader population in #Utah.

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