Brooklyn Measles Outbreak: NYC Declares Health Emergency, Requiring Vaccinations in Williamsberg.

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‘Monkey, Rat and Pig DNA’: How Misinformation Is Driving the Measles Outbreak Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Handbooks distributed in some Jewish communities in New York, as well as messages on hotlines, contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and highly effective.

Children outside Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov in Brooklyn, where a measles outbreak occurred this year.CreditJohn Taggart for The New York Times

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