The CDC finds 78 new measles cases as outbreak sprints toward record, and experts blame anti-vaxxers
A sign at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., explains the local state of emergency because of a measles outbreak. The disease is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It's so contagious that 90 percent of those who aren't immunized are infected if exposed to the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“More bad news,” Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease expert at the Baylor College of Medicine, said in a Twitter post about the new CDC numbers. “A totally unnecessary and self inflicted wound, and a direct consequence of an aggressive antivax misinformation campaign.” The judge’s ruling, handed down Friday, canceled a ban that would have remained in place for 20 more days. When he announced the ban last month, County Executive Ed Day said his goal was to stem the flow of reported measles cases, which total 167 since September.
Elsewhere in New York, especially in Brooklyn and Queens, the Orthodox Jewish community has been particularly hard hit. On Monday, New York City’s Health Department reiterated its December order to yeshivas in Williamsburg, instructing them to exclude unvaccinated children from school and day care.
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