This whole thing is ridiculous. When I was a kid, measles was a non-event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR6NEv6yCEg
In 2017, 20,000+ deaths occurred from prescription opioid deaths, over 1000x higher than from measles. What gets mentioned a thousand times more in the mainstream media?
New York City has slapped 12 people with civil summonses who it says were not complying with a mandatory measles vaccination order, as the city’s worst outbreak since 1991 rose to 390, according to Wednesday data.
The outbreak began last October and has been largely confined to children living in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish communities. Two of the 61 cases confirmed since last Thursday are pregnant women, according to Reuters, citing the city’s health department.
The Health Department took the unusual step earlier this month of issuing an emergency order requiring unvaccinated people in affected neighborhoods to get the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine unless they could otherwise show they had immunity.
The 12 people issued summons for defying the order must attend a hearing and face a fine of up to $1,000 if found to be noncompliant.–Reuters
NYC’s outbreak is one of the largest of several across the country, which has confirmed 695 measles cases so far this year – the most since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a Wednesday statement.
The resurgence – concentrated primarily in Washington state and New York – is being blamed on the anti-vaccine movement.