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  "path": "/2026/06/01/repub/measles-whooping-cough-spike-amid-low-vaccination-rates/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T15:00:47.000Z",
  "site": "https://missouriindependent.com",
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  "textContent": "Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central Africa. Nationally there have been 1,983 measles cases this year, nearly the 2,288 total for all of 2025, which in itself was the […]",
  "title": "Measles, whooping cough spike amid low vaccination rates"
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