The United States announced they were eliminated in the year 2000. I'm one of the counties that has an outbreak. Mine's like March. I now recognize Representative dingell for her five minutes questions. Eliminating what? In 2000, we said we had eliminated measles in this country. It's back. You acknowledged it. Others have 3,000 cases in the last few months. Every patient, every child with measles should be treated with compassion. But I had seven cases just in the last couple of weeks in my county. (00:35–00:45)
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Asserts that measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, but there are now 3,000 cases.
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