New York City Health Department today is reporting six individuals with confirmed measles this month in the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The initial case of measles was acquired by a child on a visit to Israel, where a large outbreak of the disease is occurring. The individuals with measles ranged in age from 11 months to 4 years.
Five of these children were unvaccinated prior to exposure, including four because vaccination was delayed and one who was too young to have received the vaccine. The sixth child had received one dose of the vaccine prior to exposure but was not yet immune. Complications include one child who was hospitalized with pneumonia and another child with an ear infection.
Additionally, there are seven confirmed individuals with measles among New York State residents outside of New York City – five acquired measles during travel to Israel, and two are individuals infected after an exposure to a person with measles.
To increase awareness about measles, the Health Department will hold a meeting in Williamsburg with rabbis and elected officials tomorrow.
“Although measles is preventable, too many families are choosing to not vaccinate or delay vaccination, putting their children and other children at risk,” said Acting Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot.
“It is also important to make sure the entire family is protected before traveling internationally, because outbreaks of measles are occurring in Israel and throughout Europe. If your child develops a fever and rash, contact their health care provider and keep your children home from school or daycare.”
“I commend the Health Department and the City for taking the necessary steps to ensure that this outbreak is contained by informing and educating the community on ways to stop the spread of this and other preventable diseases,” said Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, a member of the Assembly’s Health Committee. “The safety of our children is of the utmost importance.”
The Health Department recommends the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for children at age 12 months, with a second dose at 4 to 6 years old. Two doses of MMR are required to attend kindergarten through grade 12.
Children attending daycare, nursery school, Head Start and pre-K are required to have one dose of MMR vaccine. All persons, including infants ages 6 to 11 months should be vaccinated prior to international travel. Parents should keep ill children at home and not send them to daycare or school. If there is measles in a student, all unvaccinated children – including those with a medical or religious exemption – will be excluded and unable to attend the daycare or school for 21 days after their last exposure.
Measles is a highly contagious disease. Young children, the immunocompromised, and non-immune pregnant women are at highest risk for severe complications. Measles is transmitted by airborne particles, droplets, and direct contact with the respiratory secretions of an infected person.
Measles typically presents in adults and children as an acute viral illness characterized by fever and generalized rash. The rash usually starts on the face, proceeds down the body, and may include the palms and soles. The rash lasts several days. Infected individuals are contagious from four days before rash onset through the fourth day after rash appearance.
If you think you were exposed to measles, contact your health care provider before going to the facility so they can prevent exposure to other patients. Tell the medical staff if you have fever and a rash and about any known exposures or international travel. You can prevent measles by making sure you and your family have received two doses of MMR vaccine.
Health care providers should ensure that adults and children over the age of 6 months who are traveling outside the U.S. have documented immunity to measles. In addition to the large outbreak currently going on in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel, there are large outbreaks in Europe; in the first six months of 2018, over 41,000 cases of measles and 37 deaths have been reported. Countries most affected include Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Greece, Romania, Italy, France, Slovakia, Russia and the United Kingdom, although all countries in Europe have reported cases. There are also outbreaks in many other parts of the world, including countries in Asia, South America and Africa.
Suspected persons with measles should be reported immediately to the Health Department. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/health and search for “measles.”
People forget so so so easily, how scary and life threatening certain diseases were, before vaccines were available. My Grandmother was of that generation, and she got Polio. She should live and be well until 120, but we need to learn from their experiences. Its only been two generations guys….Theses diseases are serious.
Those who don’t are following ‘doctors’ and hollywood celebs’ who practice avoda zara as part of their alt-medicine
Let’s go back to the time when people got measles, polio and smallpox (and the life expectancy was 45)
people who are bragging around that doctors are psycopaths running after money are copying goym naturalistic hippies who are slandering doctors. wake up we have so many chasuve and learened yidishe doctors who are pro vaccine and vax their owm family. please get out of the woods
Wonderful article!!
https://collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=51318
Seriously the antivaxxers need to take some sort of antipsychotic meds. I’ve worked a long time in a hospital and it is amazing how people can be so ignorant by choice.Look I personally dont care if ur child ends up in critical care because you don’t care.But when it affects someone else’s child or pregnant mom then I do care. Theres nothing u can do for sheer stupidity. Nothing.
I know this because there are DOCUMENTED CASES of babies who were vaccinated and within a week they were DEAD or seriously injured in a car crash, a hurricane, an earthquake, or some other disaster. Clearly the vaccine must have caused it. This is what passes for reason among anti-vaxxers.
It’s so dishonest to quote the Rebbe about vaccines. The Rebbe’s letters about vaccines were at a time when there were fatal diseases going around and there the few vaccines for those deadly diseases. How can you even compare measles and chicken pox to the diseases of then? If someone wants to promote vaccinations let them do it based on science and doctors but to quote the Rebbe???! Medicine never stays the same for so long. It’s intellectually dishonest to just quote the Rebbe to brush off the anti vaccine people.
If even one person dies cvs from this measels outbreak blood is on the hands of all those who haven’t vaccinated.
Many people think that measles can cause autism and the only reason doctors push the vaccine is for money. This is not true, at the time even the MMR is given at about age two that is also the same time autism can also be diagnosed.
Measles outbreaks in Jerusalem, Monsey, Williamsburg and Boro Park. We don’t learn high-school (or grade school, really) science, ch”v, but we know better than all doctors, researchers and scientists in the entire world. I’m sickened by the hubris, the smugness, the carelessness, the irresponsibility. I’m ashamed that so much stupidity is allowed to fly in my own community.
You obviously don’t know the possible outcomes of measles #1 Encephalitis (swelling of the brain), almost impossible to treat and severely dangerous #2 Can cause permanent hearing loss (many kids in the 60’s and 70’s who got measles wound up deaf) #3 Can cause pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in kids #4 Especially dangerous for pregnant women, can cause premature birth or cause severe problems for child in-utero Please do yourself a favor and do some real medical research to understand why children aren’t dying regularly of these preventable diseases. Its all due to… Read more »
Who would have thought it? So that’s what’s behind modern medicine – dollars for doctors and pharmaceutical companies! Let’s teach them – stop blood pressure treatment! don’t treat ear infections! depression, anxiety – snap out of it, its all in the mind! those stories about avoiding crowds in the summer and children in iron lungs following polio, sterility following mumps infection, brain damage following measles – all fake, just an excuse to make parents vaccinate their children and ensure doctors get richer. We’ll show them – no more fake health care!!
(see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024226/)
Because the vaccine components are alive, they can spread to non-vaccinated subjects, extending the impact of vaccination to the community at large. However, because these vaccines are alive, mutations may occur in the attenuated vaccine strain with a reversion to virulence, as seen rarely with oral polio vaccine which causes paralysis in about one in two million recipients, and they may cause significant illness in subjects with impaired immunity, as has been seen with the anti-tuberculosis vaccine bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) when given to immunodeficient patients
from a pro-vaccine article on the website of the National Institute of Health, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024226/
“Study of the pattern of infectious diseases in industrialized countries from the end of the nineteenth century onwards shows that there was a large and progressive decline in child mortality, owing largely to a reduction in mortality from infectious diseases, prior to the development and deployment of vaccines. This was associated with improvements in housing, nutrition and sanitation.”
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html
Most people don’t about this database and doctors will almosst never report anything to it, because 1) they don’t believe bad reactions are ever a result from the vaccine and 2) they are busy and get no reward for reporting anything.
Therefore, only a small fraction of bad reactions are ever reported. Nevertheless, there are many serious reactions reported.
Q: Are vaccines 100% safe? A: No. Many many high quality studies have been done, and vaccines have been shown to cause side effects in very rare situations. Most of the side effects are mild. Q: Have any of those studies shown a link between vaccination and autism? A: No. Despite extensive research and thousands of subjects, no link between vaccine and autism has ever been demonstrated. And given the persistent inability to demonstrate such a link, it is very unlikely that such a link exists. Q: But what about that original paper that… Read more »
The very fact that the outbreaks are concentrated and happening in Chasidic Communities who DO NOT vaccinate are evidence that lack of vaccination causes measles more than vaccination.
Spot on. Nobody worries about scarlet fever.
If vaccines work so well, you have nothing to worry about. Getting the vaccine guarantees one thing, and it’s not immunity, but dangerous toxins straight into your blood stream.
If kids would just be allowed to contract the measles naturally – as kids – then we wouldn’t have to worry about pregnant women getting it. What good is a vaccine that – if it works at all – wears off by the time one reaches adulthood?!
Get the measles as a kid, get lifelong immunity.
How many measles cases yearly in Israel?
And how many deaths from measles in Israel?
Many many more people die from the vaccine than actually getting measles. If they don’t die from the actual vaccine they can have chronic and mental illnesses for life. Much worse than being sick for a week or two then getting better and having an even stronger immune system after contracting measles.
https://youtu.be/rfCu9dwb7Fo
The measles vaccine is what causes most outbreaks.
this is just fear-mongering by Pharma funded institutions to sell you more vaccines your kids get more sick from all the toxins in them then you get to go back to them for drugs it’s all racket for big Pharma has nothing to do with the health of your kids no one dies from measles hundreds and thousands of kids die from the measles vaccine.
https://stichtingvaccinvrij.nl/outbreak-of-over-12000-cases-of-measles-in-ukraine-is-caused-by-recent-vaccination-campaign/
Let’s look up the number of kids who suffered worse from the vaccine. If you get measles, support the body and the symptoms.
If you try to push a medical procedure on other people’s children, are you also going to take responsibility for a injury or death that may occur? Because pharmaceutical companies can not be held liable. Wonder why.
Look up the amount of aluminum in vaccines and the amount that’s considered safe. Doesn’t come close to adding up. No rabbi can tell you it’s the right thing to do.
Oh the fear mongering. There are so many things that can be potentially dangerous. The list never ends. And yet, people only stress the ones that big pharma has made vaccines for. Think more, research more people.
I’m a nurse working closely with the chareidi community in Jerusalem where measles is now rampant. There are estimated to be about 3,000 cases in Jerusalem alone (many are not seeking medical treatment at this point, so “official” diagnoses are fewer). We have been working tirelessly to vaccinate children who until now have not been vaccinated. Many have already been exposed to the measles (which means there’s a 90% chance of contracting it). I have been hearing of horrific cases where children are suffering excruciating pain for well over a month due to the measles. Many have been hospitalized with… Read more »
Listen to the news. Measles outbreak in orthodox Jewish communities. Measles contacted by traveler from Israel. Williamsburg, Boro Park and Monsey affected.
I’m sure the goyim are not looking favorably at us due to this irresponsibility.
And now there is a 1 month old baby with measles R”L!!! Disgusting!
At least there will be a free vaccine clinic in Monsey today.
Let cCown Heights follow with a vaccination clinic
Schools and yeshivas take action. Bad any unvaccinated child from your buildings until at least this outbreak is over
have died from the MMR vaccine.
Zero.
Please don’t let the comments section be hijacked by antivaxer ignorance. Their views are not only very dangerous to the community, but contrary to the Rebbe’s directives to listen to the doctors. The medical community overwhelmingly supports vaccination.
Why always the focus on the kids. Adults go get your vaccines!!!! If you’re over the age of 26 you’re not even close to being up to date. Anyone vaccinated prior to the passing of the 1986 Act had better go catch up on the 40 plus vaccines they have not yet gotten!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rash-decision/
Few people die because most are vaccinated and measles was almost non-existent. But then “very intelligent” people stopped vaccination, and we have major outbreaks again.
Listen to the Rebbe! Vaccinate!!!
Do you have proof that anyone does from the vaccine? All you noon-vacsers use to say it causes autism. That has been debunked. So now you want to pretend that the vaccine kills?
Please go feed your kids vegan celery juice. That will keep them healthy, right?
You may as well not vaccinate, because the anti vaxx movement is growing by leaps and bounds. No need to inject yourself with poison if your theory of herd immunity is failing anyway.
Such a tiny percent of people who get measles die or have serious complications. There are really serious diseases that we have to be afraid of.
Many have died and gotten autism from these vaccines. Educate yourself about the real reason the doctors push these vacines – $$$…
I agree a 💯% people have given the measles injection and they got it straight after.
Alot of people live and eat very unhealthy this is what does bad to the body and can make people I’ll. If we would only watch what we would do with our day to day Life style we will be healthy and well.
so true
Do you know how many people have died from the MMR vaccine?
The fewer people are vaccinated the more will get measles, and the more will die.
are you aware that measles can leave behind life time complications, that someone who contracted measles can suffer complications years later, do you have a record of pregnant women who might have lost their baby to measles? of pregnant women whose babies might have been permanently damaged because of measles, no I didn’t think you had such information
It’s all an academic discussion, until…
There’s an outbreak, and preventable, bad things happen, C”V, to real people/kids.
Then, I want hear the anti-vaxers gospel, about going back in time, to a worse a place.
not 1 person in the entire U.S. has died from the measles since 2015, almost 4 years.
So many of our parents do not immunize our children. This is
a very serious matter. Immunization only works if most people
immunize. Our Rabbonim and doctors have to speak up and
try to convince everyone to immunize before the measles hits our community.