More than 80 children infected in Ohio measles outbreak

A measles outbreak striking central has now infected 82 children - hospitalizing 32 - as experts fear the once-conquered virus will make a resurgence.

Officials in Columbus, Ohio, the state's largest city, confirmed the infections and report that 74 of the infected children are not vaccinated against measles - and four are only partially vaccinated. Nearly all of the infected are under five years old.

While once one of the most dangerous infections in the world, measles deaths have significantly dropped since an effective vaccine was introduced in 1968. In 2000, the US considered it eliminated as an endemic infection.

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