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A measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is prepared at the Andrews County Health Department in Andrews, Texas, on April 8.

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Dissected human teeth are displayed in the office of dentist Dr. James Bekker, April 30, 2025, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

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FILE - Flu vaccines are lined up at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As of December 2022, the CDC estimates there have been at least 190,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 deaths from flu so far this season. The deaths include at least 17 children. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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NORTH ARLINGTON, NJ - MAY 24: A 96 percent illuminated waning gibbous Flower Moon rises behind the skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on May 24, 2024, as seen from North Arlington, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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1972: In this handout from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a histopathology of measles pneumonia is seen in this microscope image from 1972. Measles outbreaks have been reported throughout the U.S., with the latest reported February 5, 2015 at a daycare in suburban Chicago where as many as five children under the age of one have been infected. (Photo by CDC via Getty Images)

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