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While Arizona has thus far avoided the on-going measles outbreak affecting 22 other states, given the state's 88% vaccination rate, University of Arizona associate professor of medicine Shad Marvasti, MD, MPH (Dr. Shad), associate professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, suspects at least one person statewide must have contracted the viral infection – either without knowing it or without going to a doctor.
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