New York pulls polio vaccine slogan over antisemitism allegations
State politician says the slogan ‘Polio is spreading in Israel. Get immunized now’ harkens back to anti-Jewish tropes
State politician says the slogan ‘Polio is spreading in Israel. Get immunized now’ harkens back to anti-Jewish tropes
Rockland County, which has highest per capita Jewish population in the US, reports 14,000 vaccine doses given since July
Months after an Orthodox man was paralyzed by polio, New York public health says the virus is still circulating
'You don't find polio just willy-nilly in wastewater in the United States,’ said one public health official
Officials held a conference call with leaders of Brooklyn’s Haredi Orthodox community after a Jewish man in Rockland County was identified as the first U.S. polio patient in 10 years
The area, where an Orthodox Jewish man contracted the first U.S. case of polio in a decade, has long been a center of vaccine hesitancy
The first case of polio in years was recently revealed to be an Orthodox Jewish man, leading some to blame the community at large
My father isn’t one to proffer childhood anecdotes, but there is one story he likes to tell: it’s about his polio vaccine. He was in elementary school when the Sabin vaccine (named for Alfred Sabin, the Jewish scientist who developed it) became available for general use. He lived in a small Connecticut town where crowds…
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