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To contain a measles outbreak, a newly infected person has to work in tandem with state and local health authorities, providing information on when their symptoms began and whom they may have exposed during the nine days they are contagious.
Most people do. Then there are those who refuse.Just last week in Rockland County, New York, which has been battling a persistent outbreak of measles in the Orthodox Jewish community for six months, a contagious person stopped cooperating with local investigators.
— Peach Group October 28, 2018 The vaccine conference call is part of an overall parenting hotline that says it is "A Right Hand for the Jewish Mother," providing recipes, religious, nutritional, weight loss and parenting advice."If that's a source of a lot of their parenting information, they're being fed complete misinformation about vaccines directly from anti-vaccine activists," O'Leary said.
"I think for many years the walking paradigm has been you simply provide the factual information and people will make the right decision," he said."But that assumes that human decision-making is always rational."We're not rational creatures in many situations, and emotions play a role," O'Leary continued."When you get a parent who strongly believes that vaccines have harmed their child, it's a very compelling story for a lot of parents.
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