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Idaho Matters Doctors Roundtable: March 13, 2024

FILE - A dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is displayed at the Neighborcare Health clinics at Vashon Island High School in Vashon Island, Wash., on May 15, 2019.
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FILE - A dose of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is displayed at the Neighborcare Health clinics at Vashon Island High School in Vashon Island, Wash., on May 15, 2019.

Measles was eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, but new cases have been popping up across the country, including in Florida last month with elementary school kids. And Whooping Cough cases are growing in Idaho.

Dr. David Pate, former CEO of St. Luke's Health System, joined Idaho Matters to talk more about this as well as other public health concerns.

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