After measles is detected at Brooklyn migrant shelter, city health officials quarantining some people there

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New York City health officials are trying to stop cases of measles from spreading after two cases were confirmed Saturday​ at a migrant shelter in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK - New York City health officials are trying to stop cases of measles from spreading after two cases were confirmed Saturday at a migrant shelter in Brooklyn. The cases were quarantined and confined to one floor of the shelter on Hall Street in Clinton Hill. Health officials are working to identify anyone who was exposed and to determine their immunity status. People who are not immune are being quarantined for 21 days. Dozens at the shelter are being quarantined.

And if somebody is offering you a vaccination, you're not always going to necessarily going to say yes. And so, but maybe once you've been placed in a shelter location, like the one in my district, and things might be a little more settled, if you're offered it again, then you might say yes.'New York City officials said they brought in clinical teams to provide those MMR vaccines to people at the Hall Street shelter, and to monitor those in quarantine.

 

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