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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, August 29th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

The number of measles cases around the world,

which had been rapidly declining in recent years, is rising again.

In the first six months of 2019,

there were more outbreaks than any other year since 2006,

according to the World Health Organization.

Public health officials attribute the increase in the United States and the United Kingdom

to anti-vaccination sentiment.

Some private schools in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills report that extraordinarily high numbers of students are not vaccinated.

And New York State has been fighting a particularly pernicious measles outbreak centered in Orthodox Jewish communities in Rockland County and Brooklyn.

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