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Majority Of U.S. Measles Cases Are In Ohio

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 30, 2014 at 7:26 AM EDT

The Centers for Disease Control says measles cases are at a 20-year high, and 60-percent of those cases are in Ohio. Nearly 300 cases have been confirmed nationwide. 100 of those are in Knox County alone. Officials believe that outbreak started when a group of unvaccinated Amish people returned to Ohio from a trip to the Philippines, which is dealing with an outbreak of it's own.
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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