Last week the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 971 cases of measles have been confirmed across the country in just the first five months of this year, eclipsing the previous annual high of 963 cases (in 1992) since vaccines became widely used. New York accounts for a large portion of the new epidemic, with New York City having 500 cases since last September and Rockland County 254 so far this year.
The re-emergence of measles, which had been eliminated as an epidemic disease in the United States in 2000, has triggered sharp public debate in New York and elsewhere about mandatory vaccination. And the concentration of new cases in certain orthodox Jewish communities has prompted the New York State Legislature to consider eliminating the religious exemption from the state’s mandatory-vaccination law.
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