Measles, a disease previously thought to have been eradicated from the U.S., has been making a comeback. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 120 people have reported contracting measles since the beginning of 2015, many of them because of an outbreak originating at Disneyland in California.

The reemergence of measles has led to a nationwide debate over whether U.S. parents should be required to vaccinate their kids against the disease. But there’s also a grown-up question of what employers can and cannot do during an outbreak when it comes to keeping the workplace disease-free.

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