It was 1989, George H.W. Bush was in the White House, Madonna was on the radio and the country was in the grips of its last major measles outbreak - until today.
“People were scared to death to come to the city. I mean, schools canceled trips to the city. We were pulling one dead child out of the house after another,” pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease expert at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who was working in the city as cases exploded, told The Independent.
