New York city is threatening to close some Jewish schools in Brooklyn that allow unvaccinated students as a measles outbreak in the area worsens.
For more on investing in health-care innovation, click here to join CNBC at our Healthy Returns Summit in New York City on May 21. "This outbreak is being fueled by a small group of anti-vaxxers in these neighborhoods. They have been spreading dangerous misinformation based on fake science," New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said in a statement.
Orthodox Jews are less likely to be vaccinated, leaving the tight-knit communities vulnerable to the highly contagious disease. New York drove the recent spike in measles cases around the country, pressuring health officials to find a way to contain outbreaks ahead of Passover, a Jewish holiday that starts next Friday.
Those needles contain autism.
I am screaming Anti Semitic!!!!
This headline won't sell. New York city is threatening to close some schools in Brooklyn that allow unvaccinated students as a measles outbreak in the area worsens.
This may sound extreme, but I feel that parents not vaccinating their children is a form of child abuse. What kind of parent would not want their child to be prevented from being vulnerable to a disease?
Democrats are being racist? say it aint so! Democrats do not want people to have choice, that the Government knows best? Say it aint so!
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