Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has ' the power to do this.'
New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday in response to measles outbreak in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and ordered mandatory vaccinations for residents in four zip codes.
The measles outbreak has sickened 285 people in the city since October, and the rate of infection has increased over the last two months, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a Tuesday news conference. Those who refuse to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine face a $1,000 fine, de Blasio said. The Health Department order also mandates that parents vaccinate children who are six months of age or older unless the parent or guardian can prove the child is immune to the disease or should be “medically exempt from this requirement.”“We are absolutely certain we have the power to do this,” de Blasio said regarding the city’s legal authority to carry out its order to vaccinate residents. “This is a public health emergency.
Mainstream Jewish teaching does not prohibit vaccination, and most rabbis are encouraging parents to have their children immunized. A small anti-vaccine movement has been spreading misinformation in the religious community about the vaccine.
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