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Just had dinner with friends. they said a classmate just got diagnosed with german measles. i didn't know what to say. why would someone get that?
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Rubella...: ...Is a contagious disease that is preventable with the MMR vaccine. As with any such disease, epidemics start when too many people decline the vaccine so that any sick person coming in from the outside has unvaccinated contacts to infect.
Answered 6/10/2014
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