This paper has been printing U.S. measles ledgers as unmerged through the catch-up week. [1] Friday has no merged CDC book in fetched copy. Unmerged is not gone. A quiet health desk is not a closed outbreak. Print unmerged. Do not print cleared. The lettuce cyclospora cluster ended on another page. That end is not a measles merge.

No merged national measles book is in Friday's CDC copy. This edition will not invent a merge to fill a quiet Friday. Friday recap that treats measles as gone is a feed, not a CDC merge.

Print unmerged. Friday is not a closed outbreak. The ledger still does not merge on this desk.

Unmerged remains the only honest ledger word. Friday is not a CDC merge.
-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago