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....Not so visible was the fact that this Somali-American community—Minnesota’s largest—is currently experiencing the state’s worst measles outbreak in nearly three decades. On Thursday, the count rose to 44 confirmed cases across three counties. Public health officials are now scrambling to keep the disease from reaching pockets of unvaccinated kids in other parts of the state. This means advising accelerated shot schedules to doctors and parents, and considering quarantine orders for anyone who has been exposed. The health officials know that once a measles outbreak gets going, it can be very difficult to contain, even if they expected it.And they totally expected it. Over the last decade, anti-vaxxers have fortified this corner of Minneapolis into a bastion for pseudo-science.....https://www.wired.com/2017/05/anti-vaxxers-brought-war-minnesota-came-measles/?mbid=nl_5817_p3&CNDID=42241419