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Measles and Herd Immunity
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Herd immunity is the concept that there is a tipping point trade off between the infectiousness of a disease and the immunity of the population.  This was a new term to me that I heard while listening to This American Life, specifically I was listening to this Podcast.  To be honest I thought that this would be a topic cover in Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book The Tipping Point, but it was not there, to my surprise.
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