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Penpak Ngamsathain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over the last several years, isolated outbreaks of measles have been popping up across the United States. Most recently, between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed cases of measles with infections reported in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Washington, D.C. area. Emergency medicine physicians and departments have to relearn how to rapidly detect and diagnose a disease that many have never had to treat before, only learning about it in school. Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 because most Ameri...