Source: NBC News
New York City has ordered yeshivas in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Brooklyn to exclude from classes all students who aren’t vaccinated against measles or face violations and possible closure.
The city health department’s order to all yeshivas in Williamburg comes amid a measles outbreak, with 285 cases of the disease in Brooklyn and Queens since October, most of them involving members of the Orthodox Jewish community.
“Any school out of compliance will immediately be issued a violation,” the health department said in a release Monday.
The outbreak started when an unvaccinated child acquired measles on a visit to Israel, where a large outbreak of the disease is occurring, the health department says on its website. “Since then, there have been additional people from Brooklyn and Queens who were unvaccinated and acquired measles while in Israel.”
The vast majority of measles cases in Brooklyn and Queens are of children younger than 18 years, the release on Monday said.
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