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The strategies recommended for reducing measles deaths include the following. a) A dose of measles vaccine should be provided to a very high proportion of infants at 9 months of age or shortly thereafter through routine immunization services. b) All children should have a second opportunity to receive measles vaccine. This increases the proportion of children who receive at least one dose and helps to assure measles immunity in previously vaccinated children who failed to develop such immunity. c) Measles surveillance should be strengthened through the integration of epidemiologic and laboratory information.