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Show Monday, March 26, 1990 THE SIGNPOST 7 Measles ACIN-Once on the brink of eradication, measles is striking back with a vengeance. The disease has killed 15 people nationwide this year, and the cases are mounting faster this spring than last year, which ended with an alarming 16,240 cases and 45 deaths. With schools across the country breaking for spring vacations, public health officials are worried that measles will spread farther, wider and faster. "There's a good possibility that we will have spread where we have measles outbreaks," said George Seastrom, a consultant with the Centers for Disease Control. "If (students) intermix, they'll pick it up." Spring break meccas such as Florida's Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach and South Padre Island, Texas, will literally become measles hotbeds: fun, sun and ahardy virus that can survive The Signpost - - Editorial Advertising-Production Winter Quarter, 1990 The Signpost is published every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during fall, winter and spring quarters, and weekly during the summer quarter . by the WSC Department of Communication. The Signpost is distributed free of charge and is available by subscription for $9 per quarter. Signpost offices are located in the Union Building in Room 267. Mail correspondence should be sent to: WSC Signpost, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah 84408-2110. Editor in Chief Brett Hart Managing Editor Paul Parkinson New Editor. J J. Nielson Classifieds FOR SALE For Sale: Wedding dress- beautiful snow white design. $500.00 size 7. Call 731-6521. DIAMONDS: Dont pay retail! Large selection, high quality, men's and women's settings. Wholesale prices. 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Number of measles cases 16,236 Measles cases In the United States hit an all-time low at 1,500 in 1983 before soaring to 16,236 last year. So tar this year, there have been 1 , 1 50 cases, more than double the number reported by this time last year. 6,282 y 3,655 2,587 2,822 1,500 1983 "84 '85 '86 The 1989 number Is preliminary. Source: Centers tor Disease Control County persists after an unusually long 2 12 years, making more than 3,260 people sick. Chicago has reported 2,370 cases since its March 1989 outbreak. Dallas has seen 1,200 cases to date over a similar period. In Fresno County, health officials suspect that cultural misunderstanding of vaccinations contributed to the measles deaths of nine Laotian children. That spurred officials in St. Paul, Minn., to launch adoor-to-door immunization program targeting Hmong children from Laos. Both counties have heavy concentrations of Hmong who live in cramped quarters, making them particularly susceptible to contagions like measles. 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