Dozens of people at two California universities have been quarantined as US health officials battle to stop the spread of a nationwide measles outbreak, authorities said on Thursday.
The US has recorded 695 cases of measles in 2019 - the most in any year since the disease was declared eliminated at the turn of the century. The anti-vax phenomenon has adherents across the Western world but is particularly high profile in the US, where it has been fuelled by medically baseless claims spread on social media.
In the latest cases, UCLA said an infected student had attended campus on three days earlier this month, coming into contact with about 500 people. Around 100 had been quarantined after they couldn't provide immunization records.
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