Is Now The Right Time to Try and End Measles?

Is Now The Right Time to Try and End Measles?

During 2017, hundreds of thousands of people spent their working hours, and weeks and months of volunteer time, on an elusive goal: trying to snuff a handful of stubborn diseases out of existence. Some of those diseases—like polio, Guinea worm, and river blindness—currently cause only a handful of cases. That public health workers have been …