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Measles Hits Chicago: Five Babies Diagnosed With Disease Five babies who attend a local day care have been diagnosed with the measles, Illinois health officials announced on Thursday. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  The Top Health Industry Trends To Watch In 2015 Next year the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare industry will finally begin to look and feel more like like the rest of the business world: catering to wired customers who expect one-click service and fast access to data. SHARE: Watch How A Measles Outbreak Spreads Across A Community January saw 102 cases of measles across 14 states, all linked to an outbreak that began at Disneyland last December. That number, according to the Center for Disease Control, is more than double the total number of cases for all of 2012. Read More > SHARE: Is The Disneyland Measles Outbreak A Turning Point In The Vaccine Wars? As a result of the growing number of parents who are applying for exemptions from vaccinating their kids, an outbreak that started in Disneyland in California has now spread. There have been 102 cases of measles reported in 14 states since January 1, more than in all of 2012. Read More > SHARE: Measles Vaccine Researcher Gregory Poland Talks About Vaccines, Disease While public health officials scramble to keep up with more than 100 measles cases across 14 states now, some vaccine researchers have been calling for a solution to this problem before it arrived. Read More > SHARE: