(JTA) — Fewer than 150 women turned out for a vaccine education program in Monsey, New York, less than a month after the same hall was filled with many hundreds of men and women for an anti-vaccine symposium. The women’s-only event in Monsey, a Rockland County town with a large haredi Orthodox population, was hosted…
In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared measles “eliminated,” putting the disease in the same category as smallpox and polio. That meant that, according to the CDC, there had been an “absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months.” Now, that status is on the verge of being revoked….
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews attended a “vaccine symposium” in New York, where leaders of the anti-vaccination movement shared false information on the measles outbreak among the Jewish community, The New York Times reported. Organized by a Jewish group in Rockland County, northwest of New York City, the event called on doctors, rabbis and lobbyists to…
(JTA) — In response to the measles crisis in the haredi Orthodox community, free measles vaccinations will be available in haredi Orthodox neighborhoods of New York City. The vaccinations will be available Sunday without an appointment or insurance required at Hazolah rescue service garages in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg. The…
New York City health officials say there may be hope on the horizon for the ongoing measles outbreak in Brooklyn, the Daily News reported. The outbreak is stilly “highly localized,” according to Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the city health commissioner, who said Tuesday that 80% of the infections are occurring in four zip codes that have…
New York City health officials shuttered two more Orthodox Jewish schools in Brooklyn on Monday for failing to comply with an order that bans students who can’t prove they have received a measles vaccine, bringing the total number of schools closed to seven, New York 1 reported. Health officials are taking a hard line as…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of measles cases in the United States has reached a 25-year peak, propelled by the spread of misinformation about the vaccine that can prevent the disease, federal health officials said on Monday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 704 cases as of April 26, a 1.3…
Measles, the serious disease ravaging Orthodox Jewish communities in New York, has spread to 22 states across the U.S. in the worst measles outbreak in nearly two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control, authorities have reported 695 measles cases this year, from New Hampshire to Washington state.. Travelers are introducing the disease to…
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