Chicago battles measles with calls for vaccination—in contrast with Florida

Enlarge / A brightly colored transmission microscope image of measles viruses.Getty | BSIP

A team of health experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Chicago on Tuesday as officials identified three new measles cases amid a flare-up of cases at a migrant shelter in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood.

So far, there have been seven cases identified at the Halsted Street shelter. In addition to the three cases identified today, there were two young children, one recovered and one hospitalized in good condition as of March 10, and according to an announcement on Monday, March 11, two adults

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