Measles Case Confirmed in Baltimore Area After International Travel

In the ongoing human struggle to hold contagion at bay, Maryland health officials confirmed a measles case in a Baltimore area resident whose recent international travel brought an old adversary back to local shores. The window of potential exposure — April 12 through April 17 — now asks something of every resident who passed through the same spaces during those days: to look inward for symptoms and outward toward their healthcare provider. It is a reminder that diseases once thought vanquished do not disappear so much as wait, and that the collective immunity we build together is only as stro