Adam Ratner

Adam Ratner

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Adam Ratner, MD, MPH is a pediatric infectious diseases physician in New York City and the author of "Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health," from which this excerpt is adapted.

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'A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't': Lessons from Texarkana's 1970 outbreak

By Adam Ratner published

"Today, Texarkana's unusual geographic and political arrangement continues to instruct us about the deeply intertwined nature of politics and health."