The reported case is above all centred around the orthodox jewish areas of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where 285 mässlingsfall has been observed since October, ” says Bill de Blasio at Tuesday’s press conference.
” this is the epicenter of a mässlingsutbrott which is very, very troubling and must be addressed immediately.
derived outbreak in the jewish community to the misinformation regarding the risks associated with the vaccine. In a handbook created by the group ”Parents that educates and advocates for children’s health” which has received wide spread is called the vaccine the largest folkhälsorisken and claims that it contains the DNA from monkeys, rats, and pigs – animals that all are forbidden to consume under jewish kosherlag.
Vaccines are often produced using animal cells, but the final product is purified and, according to the New York Times advocates of the most ultra-orthodox rabbis to vaccinate.
in the city since 1991. The year 2000 was judged measles to be eradicated in the united states. A virus disease is highly contagious and can be fatal, although it has so far not confirmed any deaths associated with the ongoing outbreak in New York city.
According to the U.S. center for disease infected up to 90 percent of unvaccinated people exposed to the virus.
Those who have not yet taken the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, or in other ways may prove immunity (for example, by having had measles in the past), is now facing fines of upwards of a thousand dollars, approximately 9.250 crowns.
measles has been on the rise, with 465 cases reported from 19 different states so far this year. Just this past week, the number infected increased by 20 per cent, writes CNBC, with 78 new cases reported. Of these, 60 from New York, of which 41 are from Williamsburg.
Besides New York you can also say the outbreak, which means more than three cases, in Washington, New Jersey, and two areas of California.
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