Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 09:57:04 -0500
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On 3/8/2025 4:30 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

> You do realize that these were a thing back in the 1950s and 1960s, 
> right?  So if someone is writing an SF work set in that era, it would be 
> perfectly accurate.

I remember such "parties" for German Measles (Rubella), but not for
Measles.

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