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Announced Next Steps in Combatting Measles Outbreak

County Executive Ed Day and Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announced additional steps being taken to combat the measles outbreak in Rockland County and that an appeal would be filed against last week's decision by State Supreme Court Judge Hon. Rolf M. Thorsen that restrains the County from enforcing the Executive Order, which barred anyone under 18 years of age and unvaccinated against the measles from public places for 30 days or until they received the MMR vaccination.

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Today -100: August 14, 1918: Of triumvirates, flu, and Czechoslovakias

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 02:48:12 PM EST
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Measles Outbreak - Pigs at Fault (none / 0)

NY measles outbreak spotlights religious exemptions from vaccine | Times of Israel |
HAVERSTRAW, New York (AFP) -- Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, the health commissioner of an outlying New York suburban county, is feeling "overwhelmed." Since October she has been waging an uphill fight to quell one of the worst US measles outbreaks in 20 years.

This picture shows a boy walking on the street in a Jewish neighborhoods of Nyack, Rockland County, New York. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)
... the county took the unprecedented measure on March 26 of banning unvaccinated minors from schools and public places for 30 days. Several public health specialists saluted the county's decision.
But a dozen parents of public-school students sued the county, arguing that the measure was disproportionate to the danger, particularly as there have been no deaths to date.

by Oui on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 03:24:45 PM EST
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New York City declares measles public health emergency in Williamsburg
"New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday for parts of Brooklyn's Williamsburg section following a measles outbreak affecting the Orthodox Jewish community fueled by a growing movement against vaccinations."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 06:54:37 PM EST
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Williamsburg residents sue NYC

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 08:59:52 PM EST
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Williamsburg residents' suit trashed
329 measles cases since Sept. 30, 2018, up from 285 about a week ago

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Apr 19th, 2019 at 05:27:37 PM EST
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Why is this getting worldwide coverage, when thousands have got measles in the Philippines, including at least 70 dead?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 03:39:59 PM EST
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anti-semeticism season

archived biblical proportions -(cholera + ebola marketing UPDATE)
DW | Why measles is so deadly and vaccination so important
premature declarations of victory, 98 public health care ahh ecosystems: 153 to 76,000

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Apr 10th, 2019 at 03:50:06 PM EST
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Traffic dispute leads to brutal beating of transgender woman by 'mob.' [not really] One suspect arrested, Dallas police say

Friday, the woman was involved in a minor traffic accident at an apartment complex in Dallas, according to police. "Known suspects" using homophobic slurs then beat her in an incident described by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings as "mob violence." The Dallas Police Department said it was investigating the case as a hate crime.

"mob" network reports, sequestered by Facebook.

public references
WFFA local news broadcaster
phone cam video of the assault
Human Rights Campaing, NGO
Violence Against the Transgender Community in 2018, murders

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Apr 15th, 2019 at 07:23:10 PM EST
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