Unvaccinated children face public space ban in New York measles outbreak

LONDON - A New York suburb has banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces, such as schools and shopping malls, as it fights the state’s worst outbreak in decades of the potentially deadly disease.

The Rockland announcement follows measles outbreaks in California, Illinois, Texas and Washington and is part of a global resurgence of the viral infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been 153 confirmed cases of measles in Rockland County, about 18 km north of Manhattan, mostly among children who have not been vaccinated.

The outbreak began when a traveller visited Israel and returned to a predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Rockland County. There have also been at least 181 confirmed cases of measles in the New York boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens since October, mostly among Orthodox Jews, according to the city’s health department.

Unvaccinated people should be not be allowed to walk amongst us.

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