By COLlive reporter
Crown Heights Doctor Eli Rosen has informed that there has been another confirmed case of measles in the Crown Heights community.
“There has been a confirmed case of measles in a 9-month-old baby, who has more than likely exposed many others during the last five days,” Dr. Rosen told COLlive.
If your child has not received the measles vaccine, please contact your doctor immediately, Dr. Rosen advises residents.
Crown Heights Girls School Bais Chaya Mushka has informed parents via a robocall of a confirmed case in their school.
“We are waiting for guidance from the Department of Health,” they said.
The school has informed parents that any child who is not up to date on their immunizations cannot come to school.
AUDIO: Notice from Bais Chaya Mushka School
There have been 535 cases of measles confirmed in New York City as of May 23 since the beginning of the outbreak last October, the Health Department of New York City reported.
The majority of cases (78%) remain confined to the neighborhood of Williamsburg (ZIP codes 11205, 11206, 11211, 11249), which has been under an Emergency Order since April 9, requiring people who live or work in these ZIP codes to be vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR).
There have been 40 hospitalizations and 11 admissions to the ICU due to complications. In addition, outside of Williamsburg, there have now been 12 confirmed cases in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, which is an increase of four since the last public update on May 20.
To stop the spread of measles in New York City, the Health Department on April 9 ordered adults and children ages 6 months and older who live, work or go to school in ZIP codes 11205, 11206, 11211 and 11249 receive a measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine within 48 hours. If non-compliant, the Health Department announced it would issue a civil summons to those in the affected ZIP codes who had not been vaccinated as of April 12.
Since the outbreak began in October, the Health Department has published ads and distributed educational materials specific to the Orthodox community in English and in Yiddish. The Department has met with rabbinical and community leaders, health care providers, and local elected officials to highlight the importance of getting vaccinated and the dangers of measles. The Health Department continues to perform extensive outreach in the community with a sixth round of robocalls that go out to about 30,000 households.
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE CDC:
Q: I’ve been exposed to someone who has measles. What should I do?
A: Immediately call your doctor and let him or her know that you have been exposed to someone who has measles. Your doctor can determine if you are immune to measles based on your vaccination record, age, or laboratory evidence, and make special arrangements to evaluate you, if needed, without putting other patients and medical office staff at risk.
If you are not immune to measles, MMR vaccine or a medicine called immune globulin may help reduce your risk developing measles. Your doctor can help to advise you, and monitor you for signs and symptoms of measles.
If you do not get MMR or immune globulin, you should stay away from settings where there are susceptible people (such as school, hospital, or childcare) until your doctor says it’s okay to return. This will help ensure that you do not spread it to others.
Q: Am I protected against measles?
A: CDC considers you protected from measles if you have written documentation (records) showing at least one of the following:
You received two doses of measles-containing vaccine, and you are a(n)—
* school-aged child (grades K-12)
* adult who will be in a setting that poses a high risk for measles transmission, including students at post-high school education institutions, healthcare personnel, and international travelers.
You received one dose of measles-containing vaccine, and you are a(n)—
* preschool-aged child
* adult who will not be in a high-risk setting for measles transmission.
A laboratory confirmed that you had measles at some point in your life.
A laboratory confirmed that you are immune to measles.
You were born before 1957.
Q: What should I do if I’m unsure whether I’m immune to measles?
A: If you’re unsure whether you’re immune to measles, you should first try to find your vaccination records or documentation of measles immunity. If you do not have written documentation of measles immunity, you should get vaccinated with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Another option is to have a doctor test your blood to determine whether you’re immune. But this option is likely to cost more and will take two doctor’s visits. There is no harm in getting another dose of MMR vaccine if you may already be immune to measles (or mumps or rubella).
Get the vaccine it’s so important!!!
And coercion of ordinary people to take dangerous, poisonous chemicals into their bodies and expose their children to injury is disgraceful.
#lackofeducation
Its not your private life unless you are isolated. If you live with pple its like drilling a hole on your side of the boat. Stay home if you don’t want to get the vaccine.
Sadly mistaken
What’s private about an infant getting sick from another persons lack of action? This is misinformation that is causing people to get hurt. The Rabanaim of Crown Heights must step in before this gets out of hand and Chas V’Sholom …
If you don’t want to vaccinate, don’t. (Good luck to your kids)
Just keep your kids away from our kids.
Sometimes, something that seems bad is good.
Like many things, we need to see the greater picture. So maybe vaccines have not good stuff in it but its for a greater benefit.
How do you explain BILLIONS of people getting vaccinated and living long healthy lives?
healthy? Our country vaccinates the most, yet has the most autism and autoimmune illness.
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There is enough evidence to show what will happen if you don’t vaccinate. You anti vaxxers should be in jail! Any reputable dr will tell you that you are wrong.
Just the ones you love.
We have to fight this anti vaxxer cult…they should be with lev tahor and neturei karta in guatamala and leave everyone else alone
We were all healed at Har Sinai where we were k’ish echas beleiv echad. Moshiach now!
2019: Only the vaccinated children can be our Areivim.
Troll.
But why should everyone else have to be endangered because you’re misinformed?
powerful.
Contracting this through no fault of his own, but it is someones fault! ANYONE who doesn’t vaccinate, this is YOUR fault
Measles vaccine is given at 12 months old. This baby was too young to receive the first shot. Hope the siblings were vaccinated.
first case of measles was vaccinated perhaps this one also.
God should protect all the babies that are getting all these chemicals!
hope the people that dont want chemicals into their body, also don’t use their cellphone, especially near the kids, because those waves aren’t healthy either
The baby’s age answers this assumption. Babies cannot be vaccinated until 12 months. This is why herd immunity is so important – to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, whether due to age, or a previous reaction to a vaccine, or to an immuno-compromised state.
no the child and siblings are not vaccinated. When will you wake up! Hopefully before your child gets sick. Chas v Shalom. Meanwhile keep your child at home with the other poor kids missing the end of school
wonder about the 2nd case!
let’s stop worship this vaccine god
I agree same with someone allergic to nuts … just because they are allergic doesn’t mean we should all suffer and not be able to eat this healthy food near them … so what if something happens to them it’s all for the health
The facts are that 92% of people will develop immunity after 1 dose. 97% of people will develop immunity after 2 doses. If pretty much everyone gets the vaccine then those 3% and the people who are medically unable to get the vaccine due to immune system issues or because they are too young to get it will be OK. If not then there are outbreaks. The fact that 3% fail to respond is a medical fact. No drug- NONE- is 100% effective for all people all the time. So if a vaccinated person got the measles this is no… Read more »
*herd immunity=containment of contagion
It’s called herd immunity for a reason. Google it. And as pointed out it other comments above, infants are immunized as per these guidelines:
CDC recommends that children get one dose at each of the following ages:
12 through 15 months
4 through 6 years
Welcome to the world of Chelm…
Herds are for animals. I’m a person created in G-d’s image.
The vaccinated can shed measles live virus without showing symptoms
Serological evidence indicates that measles virus (MV) could circulate in seropositive, fully protected populations. Among individuals fully protected against disease, those prone to asymptomatic secondary immune response are the most likely to support subclinical MV transmission.
Source: Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Germany
But it doesn’t. Breakouts of measles don’t occur in fully vaccinated populations. They occur when some of the population doesn’t vaccinate and introduces the measles virus to the population by way of an infected host. Not through a person getting the vaccine and shedding the virus.
So your alleged source is falsified right off the bat. I feel no need to even bother looking your alleged quote up, since you got such a basic fact wrong.
Refua Shleima to this poor baby and his family.
Pls update the whole community, we all soon will come to Shuls with newborns and other babies for very long weekend . Maybe any preventative measures can be taken like first signs of measles so all who feel sick must stay home …
thank you
As per the CDC vaccines shed….
This baby has siblings ages 2 and 3.5
Both, if received vaccines would have been shedding
The children in school with this baby were shedding
from all the vaccines that have been injected in the past few months
because of the “outbreak”
Stop blaming!
Live and let live!
Be happy with yourself and smile to your neighbor!
Get ready to receive the Torah!!!
People who are vaccinated do not shed viruses and are permitted to enter even an ICU.
Vaccinated Individuals Spread Disease
Scientific evidence demonstrates that individuals vaccinated with live virus vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), rotavirus, chicken pox, shingles and influenza can shed the virus for many weeks or months afterwards and infect the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.
Source: The Weston A. Price Foundation
Ask dr. Eli Rosen and tell him to explain to you what this foundation is. You don’t have a degree in medicine.
Finally, someone with a brain and a little bit of education speaks up.
Based on this logic there would be terrible outbreaks of measles every time a child got the vaccine. Please use your seichel. People who are infected with measles spread the virus, the vaccine does not.
Is a handful of kooks. It has no scientific credentials or credibility whatsoever. Citing it is like citing National Enquirer
In the world of education, these people are charlatans! Without any evidence that is science based, they make preposterous claims. So it’s up to you to choose what to believe – you can believe a nutritionist who says she can cure any disease, without any evidence that she’s done so; or you can believe the science of medicine that has undergone lots and lots and lots of proof. In other words, you can be an uneducated believer, or you can actually educate yourself!
You clearly do not know how vaccines and viral outbreaks work.
Wow thats scary
According to the CDC the recommended time for children to receive their first dose of MMR vaccine is between 12-15 months with the second dose being 2-4 years old and subsequently every 10 years. In this case the child wasn’t of recommended age to receive the vaccine and this may have been spread from siblings or neighbors. There are cases where one MAY POSSIBLY BE UNABLE to receive the MMR vaccine such as certain immune disorders, recently sick, allergic to eggs, gelatin, or certain antibiotics, or bleeding disorders. Complications of Measles can include hearing loss, pneumonia, and encephalitis which is… Read more »
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Listen to Dr Paul Offit from 57 minutes 40 seconds
There is no link between vaccines and autism. Where are you getting your information? An anonymous blog? The anti-vaxxers who haven’t finished high school know better than thousands of researchers, epidemiologists, scientists etc? Do you know there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world who believe the world is flat, and all the photos of the world from outer space are all fake. But they are not hurting anyone with their shtus.
If this is not a wake call. I don’t know what is. Parents. Are you taking a chance with YOUR child’s life. Principals, Do not let any unvaccinated children into school. Let these parents keep
their kids home. This only works if it is every school Stop waiting for some one else to step up.Keep our kids and staff safe!
It’s these small schools that are super chasidish that allow these “religious exemptions” in their schools. The chickens are come back to roost.
From whom does the family think the infant caught the measles? And are the cases in Sunset Park a result of immigrant household helpers catching from the Jewish families who were their employers? Or perhaps the other way around: Jewish families being infected by illegal alien workers in their homes? I am asking b/c there was a child in my family, several years ago, who was sent home from overnight camp with “chicken pox.” This child had already had chicken pox when he was younger. Come to find out, eventually, that the child did not have chicken pox this time.… Read more »
measles is not life-threatening the cases that have caused death have had underlying health issues. Lets put everything into perspective here, there is absolute hysteria over this.Let parents decide what they pump into their kids bodies.America has the highest rate of autism/adhd and alspo give the most vaccines has noone joined up the dots here????!