Anti-Vax Propaganda Helps Measles -- Once Eradicated -- Spread Across the Twin Cities
Health officials expect the number of diagnoses to rise.
Holloway, Kali
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/anti-vax-propaganda-helps-measles-once-eradicated-spread-across-twin-cities
Date Written: 2017-05-08
Publisher: Alternet
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20700
The anti-vaxxer misinformation campaign has led to yet another outbreak of a preventable disease. Minnesota's Department of Health has announced that 44 people in the state have been diagnosed with measles, a disease once eradicated in the United States. Forty-two of the cases are in children, most of them Somali-Americans who were never vaccinated. According to numerous sources, the outbreak is the result of a sustained anti-vaccination campaign.
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