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Nationwide, the N.C.D.C.'s figures show only about one-third as many measles cases so far in the current dis ease year as at this time a year ago. That is a good start. "It's unprecedented in the history of preventive medicine to try to eradicate an entire disease in one year," says Dr. Dull, "but there is good reason to believe it can be done."

* Cartoonist Charles Schulz has now reversed the field and devoted a set of six Peanuts strips to promoting the measles vaccination drive.

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