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A person with measles can infect 9 out of 10 people nearby if they are not protected.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have already been more than 700 measles cases in the United States so far this year. That's more than double the number of cases reported in all of 2024.
A group of eight men stand behind a table, all wearing suits and holding copies of a two-fold contract they just signed.
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Vienna City Superintendent Shon Westart looks at the city's water treatment system in Vienna, Mo., April 8, 2025. The system is capable of filtering out volatile organic compounds, but it does not filter out "forever chemicals" like PFOS.
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